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Bilingual glossary of geology


Paraconformity  Paraconformité
An unconformity in which the strata above and below are parallel to one another, and separated by a planar surface showing no detectable erosion. The unconformity must be determined by the age difference of the strata.

Themes:
  Dating methods and geological time scale

Related words:
  Unconformity
  Disconformity


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