- A
geosyncline (originally
called a geosynclinal) is an
obsolete geological concept to
explain orogens,
which was
developed in the late 19th and early...
- The
Ouachita geosyncline was a
major structural or
sedimentary basin along southern North America. It is
mostly covered by
sedimentary rocks from the...
- The
Adelaide Superbasin (previously
known as the
Adelaide Geosyncline and
Adelaide Rift Complex) is a
major Neoproterozoic to
middle Cambrian geological...
-
Middle Paleozoic from 450 to 340 Mya. It was
earlier known as
Lachlan Geosyncline. It
covers an area of 200,000 km2. The
Lachlan Fold Belt is bordered...
- and
faulting of
Mesozoic and
early Tertiary sediments from the
Tethys geosyncline. The
Tibetan and
Mongolian plateaux, and the
structural basins of Tarim...
- The
Samfrau Geosyncline or
Samfrau Orogeny is an
orogenic belt that was
active in the
Palaeozoic and
early Mesozoic in Gondwanaland,
formed by
small terranes...
- due to the
Andes being preceded by a
shallow geosyncline or
representing just the
margin of a
geosyncline. Thus, Cordilleran-type and Alpine-type mountains...
- in the 18th century. In the mid-19th century, the now-defunct idea of
geosynclines was used to
explain the
presence of "folded"
mountain chains. This theory...
-
River (near Sri Aman) and
forms the
southern tip of Sarawak, and the
geosyncline region,
which extends northeast to the
Batang Lupar River,
forming the...
- land-bridge
between the
present continents submerged in the form of a
geosyncline, and John
Perry had
written an 1895
paper proposing that the Earth's...
