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disconformity|dɪskənˈfɔːmɪtɪ|
[f. dis- 9 + conformity: cf. Sp. desconformidad disagreement; also disconform a.]
1. The opposite of conformity or practical agreement; nonconformity.
1602Segar Hon. Mil. & Civ. iii. xliv. 178 The Cardinals..were seuenteene, whose disconformitie continued the seat voyd almost three yeeres. a1639Spottiswood Hist. Ch. Scotl. i. (1677) 13 He thus excuses his disconformity with Rome in the keeping of Easter. a1680J. Corbet Free Actions ii. xvi. (1683) 24 [It] hath necessarily, in the manner of it, a disconformity to Gods Law. 1793Trial Fyshe Palmer 16 As to the disconformity in the copy of the Indictment. 1818Jas. Mill Brit. India I. ii. v. 186 Practices..forced into a disconformity with their ancient institutions. 1843Mill Logic i. vi. §1 Conformity or disconformity to usage or convention.
2. Geol. An unconformity between two parallel, approximately horizontal sets of strata, the lower set having undergone erosion but not deformation before the upper set was deposited.
1906A. W. Grabau in Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. XVII. 569 Generally this kind of overlap implies some erosion of the underlying concordant formations, thus producing a disconformity. 1925W. J. Miller Introd. Physical Geol. vi. 137 If..two sets of beds separated by an erosion surface have their stratification surfaces practically parallel, there is a more or less deceptive unconformity called a disconformity. 1965G. J. Williams Econ. Geol. N.Z. i. 3/1 The limestones were followed in many areas by disconformities on which greensand accumulated. |