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Bilingual glossary of geology


Angular Unconformity  Discordance angulaire
An unconformity in which the older strata dip at a different angle (usually steeper) then the younger overlying strata (adapted from: Tarbuck and Lutgens, 2008)

Themes:
  Dating methods and geological time scale

Related words:
  Unconformity


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