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disconˈformable, a.
[f. dis- 10 + conformable.]
†1. The reverse of conformable; unconformable; disagreeing. Const. from, to. Obs.
1603Jas. I in Contn. Stow's Chron. (1615) 842/1 As long as they are disconformable in religion from vs, they cannot be but halfe my Subiects. 1710Norris Chr. Prud. vi. 232 Always disconformable to himself, doing what he would not, and not doing what he would and should. 1823Bentham Not Paul 329 By means disconformable to the uniform course of nature.
2. Geol. Containing or constituting a disconformity.
1905A. W. Grabau in Science 27 Oct. 534/2 We need a term to express the relation where two formations thus conform in their bedding but comprise between them a time break of greater or less magnitude. To speak of such strata as unconformable, without qualifying the term,..suggests that the older strata have suffered folding and erosion before the deposition of the later... We might speak of such formations as disconformable. 1925N. E. Odell in E. F. Norton Fight for Everest: 1924 295 The true nature of this important junction it is difficult to tell, but it has the appearance of being a disconformable one. 1970Nature 12 Sept. 1127/1 The glacial beds..are disconformable on Aztec siltstone. |