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ZU- unconformity
- A boundary separating two or more rocks of markedly different ages, marking a gap in the geologic record.
- uniformitarianism
- The hypothesis that current geologic processes, such as the slow erosion of a coast under the impact of waves, have been occurring in a similar manner throughout the Earth's history and that these processes can account for past geologic events. See also catastrophism.
- upwarped mountain
- A mountain consisting of a broad area of the Earth's crust that has moved gently upward without much apparent deformation, and usually containing sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks.
- uranium-thorium-lead dating
- A form of isotope dating that relies on the extremely long half-life of radioactive isotopes of uranium, which decay into isotopes of lead, to determine the age of rocks in which uranium and lead are present.
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