Geosyncline

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A large, linear depression in the Earth's crust in which sediment accumulates.

    "Forty years ago the crumpled and complex Mobile Belt of Newfoundland would have been considered a typical result of a deformed geosyncline."

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"Forty years ago the crumpled and complex Mobile Belt of Newfoundland would have been considered a typical result of a deformed geosyncline."

Etymology

Back-formation from geosynclinal.

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