Definition of Monocline. Meaning of Monocline. Synonyms of Monocline

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Definition of Monocline

Monocline
Monocline Mon"o*cline, n. (Geol.) A monoclinal fold.

Meaning of Monocline from wikipedia

- 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) 1,422,490 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....
- affected by the late stages of the Alpine Orogeny, forming the Isle of Wight monocline, the cause of the steeply-dipping outcrops of the Chalk Group and overlying...
- the west (a boundary that generally follows a geological feature called the Lapstone Monocline, dividing the Blue Mountains from the ****berland Plain)....
- (NOTE: this is not actually monolith as po****rly claimed, but, rather, a monocline) Mount Coolum, Queensland Mount Wudinna, South Australia Pine Mountain...
- 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...