Synclinal

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A synclinal fold.

    "But being chiefly sections of younger rocks than ours, the Austrian diagrams exhibit a more disturbed surface, so far as regards faults and slips, snapped anticlinals, upshoved synclinals, lapped folds, […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having or relating to a torsion angle between 30° and 90°
  2. 2
    Inclined downward from opposite directions, so as to meet in a common point or line.

    "The doctor's eyebrows had gone synclinal from puzzlement without his awareness."

  3. 3
    Formed by strata dipping toward a common line or plane.

    "a synclinal trough or valley"

Adjective
  1. 1
    sloping downward toward each other to create a trough wordnet

Example

More examples

"The doctor's eyebrows had gone synclinal from puzzlement without his awareness."

Etymology

From syn- + -clinal.

Related phrases

torsion angle

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