- A
monocline (or, rarely, a monoform) is a step-like fold in rock
strata consisting of a zone of
steeper dip
within an
otherwise horizontal or
gently dipping...
- The
Purbeck Monocline is a
geological fold in
southern England. The term 'fold' is used in
geology when one or more
originally flat
sedimentary strata...
- (979.0 km2) 1,227,608 The park's
Waterpocket Fold is a 100-mile (160 km)
monocline that
exhibits the earth's
diverse geologic layers.
Other natural features...
- linear,
strata dip
toward the
axial center, age unknown, or inverted.
Monocline: linear,
strata dip in one
direction between horizontal layers on each...
-
first several miles then
continues to the
north along the
eroded East
Kaibab Monocline adjacent to the
steeply dipping rocks known as the ****scomb....
- environment, the
Kimmeridge beds make up the
major part of the
Purbeck Monocline and the
periphery of the
Weymouth Anticline. They form a low-lying band...
- Geologically, the
range is
considered a
monocline; part of a
rifted volcanic margin. The
Lebombo monocline was
aligned with the
Explora Escarpment off-s****...
-
usage of
monocline, Daly
formally introduced the term
homocline and in 1915 and 1916
defined it in its
current usage and
redefined monocline as a one-limbed...
- (NOTE: this is not
actually monolith as po****rly claimed, but, rather, a
monocline)
Mount Coolum,
Queensland Mount Wudinna,
South Australia Pine Mountain...
- they
become mesas or even buttes.
Monoclines form as a
result of
uplift bending the rock units.
Eroded monoclines leave steeply tilted resistant rock...
