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We might say that those folds which had their roots farther 153 to the south were the most drawn-out towards the north: or again we might say that the synclinal or deep-seated part of the fold has lagged behind the anticlinal or what was originally the highest part of the fold, in the advance of the latter to the north.— The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays
Evidently, figments of lonely settlements and dark paths belong in limbo with those of dismal inns The next great synclinal, adjoining the Valley of Ossau, is the Valley of Lavedan, and at its head in the mountains lies Cauterets, our next point of attack.— A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees
I returned from the hill but little wiser than I went, except that I had observed the strata dipping southward, and that we might, therefore, still look for their synclinal line to the northward; and beyond that, for the heads of other rivers.— Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
And again, the rim of the general basin, where it is elevated, as for example on the southwestern portion, instead of being a ridge sculptured on the sides like a mountain range, is found to be composed of many short ranges, parallel to one another, and to the interior ranges, and so modeled as to resemble a row of convex lenses set on edge and half buried beneath a general surface, without manifesting any dependence upon synclinal or anticlinal axes -- a series of forms and relations that could have resulted only from the outflow of vast basin glaciers on their courses to the ocean.— Steep Trails
The four great luminous sheaves forming the corners of the square are made up of rays curving together from each side into "synclinal" or ogival groups, each of which may be compared to the petal of a flower.— A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
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