synclinal

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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.

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  1. adjective Sloping downward from opposite directions to meet in a common point or line.
  2. adjective Geology Relating to, formed by, or forming a syncline.

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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
  • The ridge trended north-west, as most others did in this extensive basin; and this direction being nearly parallel to that of the coast ranges further northward, seemed to afford additional reason for expecting to find anticlinal and synclinal lines, and, consequently, rivers, much in the same direction. —  Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
  • The strata at this bridge dipped N.N. E., a circumstance which induced me to travel westward instead of N. W., in hopes to cross thereby sooner, a synclinal line, and so arrive at the sources of some northern river. —  Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
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