Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A mountain formed by an anticline; a series of folds in which the anticlinal typo predominates: a series of great arches with many minor undulations.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Geol.) The upward elevation of the crust of the earth, resulting from a geanticlinal.
Examples
“The Los Zorros property covers the entire breadth of a regional anticlinorium in an area that is the locus of younger intrusive activity which intruded up through the fold-deformed lower Cretaceous section of volcaniclastic, siliclastic, and limestone formations and intrusive diorite sills.”
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