Onlap

Onlap or overlap is the geologic phenomenon of successively wedge shape younger rock strata extending progressively further across an erosion surface cut in older rocks. It is generally associated with a marine transgression. It is a more general term than overstep, in which the younger beds overlap onto successively older beds. The opposite is offlap.

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