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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(geology) The phenomenon of successively younger rock strata extending progressively further across an erosion surface cut in older rocks..
Displacement on F3 was followed by continued accumulation and onlap of the fine-grained sands of unit 3 on the footwall and development of soil Qb2.
Elsewhere, many of the youngest volcanic plains units onlap tesserae at crustal plateau boundaries.
Use onlap when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Onlap means (geology) The phenomenon of successively younger rock strata extending progressively further across an erosion surface cut in older rocks..
Common synonyms include overlap.
Possible antonyms include offlap.
Displacement on F3 was followed by continued accumulation and onlap of the fine-grained sands of unit 3 on the footwall and development of soil Qb2.
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