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Mid-Carboniferous unconformity

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 10, 2025
Entity authorityQ97354488 ↗
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The Mid-Carboniferous unconformity is an unconformity located in many countries, such as England (Namurian), Thailand, The United States and more. It has been dated to the Namurian, Middle Carboniferous (c.326-313 Ma) and the formation is often noted as being similar to the mid-Carboniferous eustatic event.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mid-Carboniferous unconformity” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.