an anticline is a type of fold that is an arch-like shape and has its oldest beds at its core, whereas a syncline is the inverse of an anticline. A typical...
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The Oxaya anticline is a large north–south aligned anticline and buckle in the Chilean Andes west of the Altiplano Plateau. The anticline is about 60 km...
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A river anticline is a geologic structure that is formed by the focused uplift of rock caused by high erosion rates from large rivers relative to the...
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Fold (geology) (redirect from Anticline and Syncline)
is, lines connecting points of equal dip on adjacent folded surfaces: Anticline: linear, strata normally dip away from the axial center, oldest strata...
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The Weald–Artois Anticline, or Wealden Anticline, is a large anticline, a geological structure running between the regions of the Weald in southern England...
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The Eskdale Anticline is a dip-slip fault at Whitby in North Yorkshire, England. The anticline was thought to have stretched for approximately 20 kilometres...
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a few meters from the Franco-Spanish border. It is an example of an anticline, a convex fold of strata, the centre of which is occupied by the oldest...
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The Anticline Ridge is a ridge, southeast of Joaquin Ridge, declining from its 3,629 foot / 1,106 meter high point, Black Mountain in the north at 36°18′16″N...
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Sheet or block and is the northern limb of the Powell Valley Anticline, a ramp anticline. The ridge exists because hard Lee-type sandstones of Early Pennsylvanian...
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Rollover anticlines are anticlines related to extensional normal faults. They must be differentiated from fault-propagation folds, which are associated...
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