Syncline

Word SYNCLINE
Character 8
Hyphenation syn cline
Pronunciations /ˈsɪn.klaɪn/

Definitions and meanings of "Syncline"

What do we mean by syncline?

A fold in rocks in which the rock layers dip inward from both sides toward a central line. noun

Same as synclinal. noun

A synclinal fold. noun

A concave-upward fold in rock strata noun

A concave-upward fold in rock strata

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The word "syncline" in example sentences

A syncline is a fold where the rock layers are warped downward (Figure 4 and 5). ❋ Unknown (2007)

With his thin hair dyed rusty brown and brushed straight back off the wide dome of his forehead, and modish wire-framed glasses over small, heavy-lidded eyes, his face was all too familiar, its deeply creased cheeks sagging in a fine cascade of syncline folds to the crisp knot of his blue silk tie. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A fold in the Eliot formation, the Great Bay syncline, passes through Newington to Thomas Point, under Great Bay, then into Stratham near Bracketts Point. ❋ Unknown (2008)

South Slough NERR lies along a geologic fold, or syncline, which bears its name. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The outcrops of basement ice shown in Figure 1 are connected by a syncline of basement ice this is a term used in geology. ❋ Unknown (2007)

When a water-bearing stratum is enclosed between two impervious layers in a syncline, the water falling on a pervious stratum runs into the synclinal basin and is stored there under pressure. ❋ Unknown (1985)

"The porphyry dykes here are in syncline," the engineer went on. ❋ Unknown (1906)

Now, a section drawn parallel to the earthquake-fault and on the north-east side of it, would show an anticline near the Hereford focus and a corresponding syncline near the Ross focus, with an undisplaced portion in the intermediate region; while a parallel section on the other side of the fault would show a syncline near the Hereford focus, an anticline near the Ross focus, and again an undisplaced portion in the intermediate region. ❋ Charles Davison (1899)

The anticline has advanced relatively to the syncline. ❋ John Joly (1895)

Thus we find that the ocean floor is depressed into a syncline along the western coast of South America; a trough always parallel to the ranges of the Andes. ❋ John Joly (1895)

When folding at length takes place along the axis of the elongated syncline of deposition, the stresses find relief probably for some hundreds of miles, and the region of folding now becomes compressed in a transverse direction. ❋ John Joly (1895)

Hikers who have ventured into the valley above the Markley Hut, a few miles from Ashcroft, may have noticed another example of an inclined syncline. ❋ Tim Willoughby Aspen Times Weekly (2010)

The face of Aspen Mountain between its two book-end cliffs (Shadow Mountain and Ute Trail) manifests an inclined syncline: severely bent sedimentary layers that tilt toward town. ❋ Tim Willoughby Aspen Times Weekly (2010)

O8 estimated is based only on 11 widely-spaced drill holes, it is regarded by Mega as merely an indication of the magnitude of the uranium resource potential of the southernmost five kilometre long portion of the syncline containing the Berlin uranium mineralization. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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