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- Geology, upward fold. anticlinal, adj. anticlinorium,— xml's Blinklist.com
But there remained in native hands still that vast northern anticlinal, which differs almost entirely in its superficial features from the prairies and plains to the south; and it was this region, enormous in extent and rich in economic resources, which, it was decided by Government, should now be placed by treaty at the disposal of the Canadian people.— Through the Mackenzie Basin A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899
We found our way in here, "he jerked his head toward his amateur tunnel," by accident, in Thompson's time, one day when the stope happened to be empty; and we burrowed on to what looked like the anticlinal, before we heard the stope shift coming and had to slide out.— The La Chance Mine Mystery
The general association of oil pools with anticlinal areas is explained on the assumption that anticlines on the whole are areas of maximum differential movement, resulting in oil distillation, and that they are ordinarily accompanied by tension joints or faults, affording the conditions for oil migration.— The Economic Aspect of Geology
Data are insufficient, however, to indicate the extent to which the anticlinal areas are really areas of maximum shearing.— The Economic Aspect of Geology
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