Miogeocline

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An area of sedimentation that occurs along the passive margin of a continent.

Etymology

Coined in 1966 by Dietz and Holden from the miogeosyncline concept of the outdated geosynclinal theory.

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passive margin

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