onlap

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(Jeoloji) Onlap or overlap is the geologic phenomenon of successively 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