Tinted detail of a photo: Black-and-white rock face where thin layers of rock bend upwards in a broad dome shape like an arch, rising from loose stones and a small plant at the base.
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Xenoconformity! Welcome to the new-born in the stratigraphy family

Xenoconformity! Welcome to the new-born in the stratigraphy family

Every geologist has heard at least once in his career the term unconformity and all its different flavours (e.g. disconformity, paraconformity, angular unconformity, etc…). These terms are part of the basic learning in geology, often taught during first year classes in Stratigraphy. Well, it seems we’ll have to add one term in these lectures: Xenoconformity! …[Read More]