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What is An unconformity in which the strata on either side are essentially parallel?
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What type of unconformity is present below the conglomerate?
Apologies, but I do not know what unconformity you are referring to. However, I can tell you that conglomerate IS present as an unconformity in many cases due to the nature of it's formation. Conglomerate is often produced during a flash-flood, so all rock strata from the period appear interrupted by the unconformity of Conglomerate which was deposited very quickly, then after burial was cemented and lithified. My answer, therefore, is that conglomerate is common as an unconformity.
How is a trilobite fossil and the age of the rock which it is found an example of how evolutionists use circluar reasing?
If the age of a certain rock strata is found by the use of isotopic methods and another nearby strata is found to contain trilobite fossils, assuming there is no unconformity between the two strata we can infer the approximate age of the trilobites within certain parameters.
What is a rock unconformity?
a break in a sedimentary sequence that does not involves a difference of inclination between the strata on each side of the break
A One million year old layer of sandstone laying on top of a 1.5 million year old layer of granite is an example of?
this is a type of unconformity called a nonconformity characterized by a sedimentary strata overlying an igneous or metamoprhic crystalline bedrock
Sedimentary deposits built into relatively regular layers are known as?
Strata.
What is the angular unconformity?
Tilted strata lie below the unconformity; bedding in younger strata above is parallel to the unconformity.
What is the definition angular unconformity?
Tilted strata lie below the unconformity; bedding in younger strata above is parallel to the unconformity.
Which of the following best characterizes an angular unconformity?
Tilted strata lie below the unconformity; bedding in younger strata above is parallel to the unconformity.
A disconformity is an erosional unconformity with parallel beds or strata above and below?
True
An unconformity is a buried?
A surface between successive strata representing a missing interval in the geologic record of time, and produced either by an interruption in deposition or by the erosion of depositionally continuous strata followed by renewed deposition.
What type of rock is an angular disconformity?
An angular unconformity, which is what I think you mean, is not a rock type. It denotes the junction of two strata of rocks where the lower one was tilted by tectonic forces, eroded, then overlain with horizontal parallel strata.
What is an unconformity what can it tell you?
Type your answer an unconformity indicates where a layer is missing in the strata sequence, so it tells you that there is a missing rock layerhere...
What name is given to layers of tilted rocks that are overlain by younger more flat lying rock layers?
angular unconformity
What is the meaning of Unconformity?
Want of conformity; incongruity; inconsistency., Want of parallelism between strata in contact.
Which is true Relative dating tells us how long ago something existed or Disconformities are less common but usually far more conspicuous because the strata on either side are essentially parallel?
both are true
What type of unconformity is present below the conglomerate?
Apologies, but I do not know what unconformity you are referring to. However, I can tell you that conglomerate IS present as an unconformity in many cases due to the nature of it's formation. Conglomerate is often produced during a flash-flood, so all rock strata from the period appear interrupted by the unconformity of Conglomerate which was deposited very quickly, then after burial was cemented and lithified. My answer, therefore, is that conglomerate is common as an unconformity.
What are the different types of unconformities?
An unconformity is defined as a buried erosional or non-depositional surface separating two rock masses or strata of different ages, indicating that sediment deposition was not continuous. The different types of unconformities include disconformity, nonconformity, angular unconformity, paraconformity, buttress unconformity, blended unconformity, and biconformity.
