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monocline

NOUN
  1. a geological formation in which all strata are inclined in the same direction

How To Use monocline In A Sentence

  • Mountain building in the Cape region formed megafolds and monoclines, with the highest terrain diversity seen where two trends of folding meet (syntaxis). Montane fynbos and renosterveld
  • At any one point in a rift basin, one side is a major fault scarp; the opposite margin is a more gently faulted monocline.
  • The Triassic limestones are stacked along monoclines of c.1 km thickness gently dipping toward the north.
  • The north-south-trending, east-facing monocline that crosses upper Weardale near the village of Cowshill is the block's only major structural feature and essentially divides it in half.
  • Characteristic: Blue green monocline crystallization, dissolve it in water, glycerin, does not allow it in the ethanol, There is corrosive, deliquescence in weathered.
  • Ductile fabrics and tectonic boundaries in the southern part of the Cine massif outline a large-scale monocline, the tectonic significance of which is not known.
  • This rotation caused the large-scale monoclines that characterize the footwall geometry of the Güney and Kuzey detachments.
  • Arguably the most significant advance of the GUI menu was this retreat from the hierarchical form into monocline grouping.
  • Only in the west, on the Isle of Purbeck, did some minor southward drainage develop across the monocline.
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