Editing Unconformity (section)

===Disconformity===
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[[File:Disconformity.jpg|thumb|120px|Disconformity]]
A '''disconformity''' is an unconformity between parallel [[stratum|layers]] of [[sedimentary rocks]] which represents a period of erosion or non-deposition.<ref name="Monroe">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iXfhFnoQBQ0C&pg=PA267 | title=Physical geology: exploring the Earth | publisher=Cengage Learning | author=Monroe J.S., Wicander R. & Hazlett R.W. | year=2007 | pages=267 | isbn=9780495011484}}</ref> Disconformities are marked by features of [[subaerial]] erosion. This type of erosion can leave channels and [[paleosols]] in the rock record.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Boggs |first1=Sam |title=Principles of sedimentology and stratigraphy |date=2006 |publisher=Pearson Prentice Hall |location=Upper Saddle River, N.J. |isbn=0131547283 |edition=4th |page=405}}</ref>