Angular unconformity (the originally parallel layering of older sedimentary rocks has been tilted; then younger sedimentary rocks are deposited, more or less in a horizontal package, on top of the tilted rocks, making an angular discordance) in Pennsylvanian-age sandstones and conglomerates, Carlin Canyon, Elko County. The younger sedimentary rocks have been tilted as well, but not as much as the older rocks.



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