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onlap Geol. (ˈɒnlæp) [f. on adv. + lap v.2, after offlap.] A progressive increase in the lateral extent of conformable strata in passing upwards from older to younger strata, so that each stratum is hidden by the one above; a set of strata exhibiting this.1947 F. A. Melton in Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petr...
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Onlap
Onlap or overlap is the geological phenomenon of successively wedge-shaped younger rock strata extending progressively further across an erosion surface
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Fillet (geology)
The fillet is characterized by an onlap contact with the adjacent rock and by a shallow or concave profile.
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overlap
▪ I. overlap, n. (ˈəʊvəlæp) [f. overlap v.] 1. a. An occurrence or instance of overlapping; a partial superposition or coincidence; the part or place at which one edge or thing overlaps another; spec. in Geol. (see next, 3). Also transf. and fig.1813 S. Smith Agric. Surv. Galloway 85 (Jam.) When the...
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Lake Disappear
Formation), to fully marine, open sea, aerobic conditions (Glen Massey Formation) is evidenced by near shore accumulation of the bioclastic Elgood Limestone, onlap
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Musgrave Block
Palaeozoic rocks
Several Palaeozoic to neoproterozoic sedimentary basins onlap the Musgrave Block, and are exposed mostly around its edges.
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Type 1 and type 2 sequence
, and onlap of overlying strata". Similarly, a type 2 sequence boundary is "marked by subaerial exposure and a downward shift in coastal onlap landward of the depositional-shoreline break
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Parnaíba Basin
The Riachão III sequence is a wedge-shaped package of low amplitude continuous reflectors that onlap the top of the Riachão II sequence to the west. The Riachão II sequence is a wedge-shaped package of very low amplitude discontinuous reflectors that onlap the top of the Riachão I sequence to the east
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Silverpit crater
layers of rock down to the Permian (with an age of about 250 million years) are synclinically folded, and that sediments of Tertiary age at the crater onlap
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地震地层学
地层在地质剖面上所观察到的削蚀(erosion),顶超(toplap),上超(onlap)及下超(downlap)等沉积构造。在地震剖面均可认出。
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Val Verde Basin
Ouachita orogeny:~318-271 Ma
As plate convergence from the Ouachita orogeny began and progressed from the north to the south, offlap and onlap stratigraphic
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Unconformity
Buttress unconformity
A buttress unconformity also known as onlap unconformity, occurs when younger bedding is deposited against older strata thus influencing
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Offshore Indus Basin
Onlap of the Miocene and younger stratigraphy on the southeast side of the ridge confirms the age of the ridge and resultant hanging wall uplift.
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Seismic stratigraphy
Hence, onlap, down lap and top lap and other depositional features observed on surface outcrops have been demonstrated on seismic profiles. The maximum sea-level rise is represented by the highest onlap position on a sequence boundary and the minimum sea-level fall by the lowest onlap position
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Permian Basin (North America)
This formation reaches a maximum thickness of but thins out significantly as it approaches the basin margins due to transgressive onlap.
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