disconformity

disconformity
/dis'keuhn fawr"mi tee/, n., pl. disconformities.
1. Geol. the surface of a division between parallel rock strata, indicating interruption of sedimentation: a type of unconformity.
2. Archaic. nonconformity.
[1595-1605; DIS-1 + CONFORMITY]

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