anticlinal

ADJECTIVE
  1. sloping downward away from a common crest
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How To Use anticlinal In A Sentence

  • The salt continued moving along lines of least resistance and began to push upward, bowing up the overlying sedimentary rocks to form the classic elongated anticlinal structure.
  • The ridge trended north-west, as most others did in this extensive basin; and this direction being nearly parallel to that of the coast ranges further northward, seemed to afford additional reason for expecting to find anticlinal and synclinal lines, and, consequently, rivers, much in the same direction. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
  • The expelled hydrothermal fluids were trapped in cap-rock situations inside anticlinal zones, such as the major lithological contrast between siliceous limestones and black shales at the flanks of the Arnsberg anticline.
  • This process is initiated by anticlinal and periclinal divisions of a few callus cells only.
  • Strain differences between anticlinal and synclinal domains of concentric fold stacks require discontinuities between the two types of domain to maintain overall strain compatibility.
  • These metamorphic and plutonic igneous rocks form the uplifted core of the broadly anticlinal Owl Creek Mountains, a mountain range that formed during the Late Cretaceous.
  • Low-grade volcanic and sedimentary rocks are widely exposed within this elongate anticlinal window.
  • The rocks are on the west flank of the Monument uplift, a 60-mile-long north-trending anticlinal structure.
  • The precise form of the anticlinal folds at the base of the overburden layer is uncertain because of both limited seismic resolution and complexities due to the near convergence of conjugate-fault pairs.
  • The origin of this circular anticlinal structure has been the subject of a longstanding debate.
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