Associations to the word «Onlap»

Adjective

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Wiktionary

ONLAP, noun. (geology) The phenomenon of successively younger rock strata extending progressively further across an erosion surface cut in older rocks.
ONLAP, verb. (geology) To form an onlap.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope