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an erosional contact usually parallel to the bedding planes of the upper and lower rock units

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  • A disconformity is a boundary between horizontal layers of old sedimentary rock and overlying younger layers deposited on an eroded surface.
  • And even less, in the face of that, why sow disconformity?
  • And although the world may think it strange ye walk not with them, yet so much the rather ought ye to aspire after a disconformity to the world.
  • Verily, that people should be taught that the disconformity between the Papists and us is not so much in any external use of ceremonies, as in the substance of the...
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