Discordance

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Français : Une discordance désigne en stratigraphie le contact de strates ayant des pendages différents.
English: An angular unconformity where horizontally parallel strata of sedimentary rock are deposited on tilted and eroded layers that may be either vertical or at an angle to the overlying horizontal layers.