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Meaning of "anticline"
anticline (noun): a geological structure in which layers of rock are folded into an arch-like shape, with the oldest rocks at the center
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- A fold with strata sloping downwards on each side.
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The anticline runs right through here.
I was on top of the prettiest anticline you ever saw.
Tomorr is an anticline composed of limestones and karst.
Pericline also refers to a doubly plunging anticline or syncline.
Rollover anticline associated with a listric normal fault.
Augustus is a monocline an asymmetrical anticline.
The result is an anticline feature in a completely extensional setting.
These blocks include rollover faults and anticline structures.
Another anticline determines the end of the crook shape.
Geologists call this an anticline.
The crest of a rollover anticline is generally an area of active faulting.
Anticline mountain edge.
If the axial plane is tilted or offset then the anticline is asymmetrical.
An anticlinorium is a large anticline in which a series of minor anticlinal folds are superimposed.
These tend to be the most complex near the crest of the anticline.
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The basin is separated from the foredeep by an anticline or syndepositional growth structures.
This particular anticline is the most notable subsurface feature within the basin.
The originally horizontal sediments have been folded into an asymmetric anticline by later tectonic movements.
In the core of this anticline a number of massifs of early Paleozoic rocks crop out.
This fault zone is a prolongation of the Mareuil anticline.
This bulge can be considered as an anticline folding upon which normal faulting occur.
Anticlinal valley Valley developed along the axis of an anticline.
The overturned anticline plunges toward the southwest into the Mazarn Basin.
Its relief is within the north flank of the anticline of Biscay.
Anticline and Syncline.
One example of this is the El Dorado anticline in Kansas.
The Mareuil Anticline forms part of the anticlinal ridges within the northern Aquitaine Basin.
The Périgueux anticline.
A plunging anticline has a hinge that is not parallel to the earth 's surface.
The Deakin anticline.
The High Weald lies at the core of the distinctive Weald anticline.
Along this fault the northeastern side of the anticline was pushed up by about 30 m.
It is an anticlinal structure, with oil trapped stratigraphically by the anticline.
The Louvres anticline.
In structural geology, a saddle is a depression located along the axial trend of an anticline.
The reservoirs rocks of these gases are found in anticline traps, currently exploited.
This has a slightly westward plunge, reflecting the axis of the Wealden Anticline.
The cross-sectional form of the anticline can be described by a sinusoidal dip model.
It is north of the Weald-Artois Anticline.
On the Mendips the crest of the anticline is truncated by erosion, forming a plateau.
It is named after its type locality - Gurim anticline in Israel.
The rock of the Schwarzburg Anticline is metamorphic, with a core of ordovician rock, largely quartzite.
Geologically, the two mountains are equivalent, both being central ridges of the Wills Mountain Anticline.
Geologically the Arbuckles are an elongate anticline structure with an orientation or strike of west-northwest.
The anticline was named after Mareuil, a small town in the northwestern Dordogne, France.
During the Appalachian orogeny, the sedimentary rock layers folded up into the Nittany Arch anticline.
Like the Pyrenees, the Mareuil Anticline was created under compressive forces, maybe even under transpression.
The sedimentary cover reaches a thickness of altogether 400 m in the anticline.
The Mareuil Anticline is a large-scale structure.
Anti-Lebanon mountains are an anticline.
