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Onlap
Noun
Word Frequency:
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Definitions
1.
Noun
The phenomenon of successively younger rock strata extending progressively further across an erosion surface cut in older rocks.
2.
Verb
To form an onlap.
Synonyms
succession
allocycle
telogenesis
inlier
stage
lopingian
younging
angular unconformity
stratigraphy
orogenesis
eonothem
eduction
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