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- noun geology A segment of the
crust of theEarth that bendsdownward
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Contemporaneous lava flows interbedded with the strata show that volcanic action accompanied the downwarp, and that molten rock was driven upward through fissures in the crust and outspread over the sea floor in sheets of lava.
The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900
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