Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A geologic structure in which all layers are inclined in the same direction.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as monoclinal.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Geol.) A monoclinal fold.

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  • noun geology A unidirectional dip in strata that is not a part of an anticline or syncline
  • noun geology A single flexure in otherwise flat-lying strata

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a geological formation in which all strata are inclined in the same direction

Etymologies

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mono- + -cline

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Examples

  • The simplest type of fold is called a monocline (Figure 2).

    Folding and faulting in the Earth's crust 2007

  • Analysts at Mediobanca have estimated that Deutsche Bank has risk exposures of 150.7% of tangible equity, and it has a high exposure to commercial mortgages and monocline insurers, or insurers that provide guarantees to issuers of bonds, including mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt.

    Deutsche Profit Warning Raises Capital Worries Laura Stevens 2011

  • This monocline is easily accessible via two methods: road and river!

    Rattlesnake Monocline ReBecca Foster 2009

  • This monocline is easily accessible via two methods: road and river!

    Archive 2009-03-01 ReBecca Foster 2009

  • HSBC HSBC Holding PLC said on March 3 that it made a total of $2.1 billion in write-downs on asset-backed securities and credit-trading positions, leveraged - and acquisition-financing positions, and monocline-credit exposures.

    Write-Downs in Europe 2008

  • If you look closely, you can see a fold or monocline concealed partly by snow.

    Mylonitic Quartzite Silver Fox 2008

  • The boy's corpse becomes the foundation for Burringurrah, an enormous red monocline in western Australia.

    Archive 2008-09-01 2008

  • The boy's corpse becomes the foundation for Burringurrah, an enormous red monocline in western Australia.

    Book Block: THE STARS DOWN UNDER by Sandra McDonald 2008

  • About three or four miles west of this junction the river enters the east slope of the east Kaibab monocline, and here the

    Our Italy Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • If you are a bank or regulated entity, and you have mortgage-backed securities that have been written by a AAA monocline company, you can carry that debt on your books as AAA.

    Agitprop: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Propaganda 2009

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