Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mountain formed by an anticline; a series of folds in which the anticlinal typo predominates: a series of great arches with many minor undulations.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Geol.) The upward elevation of the crust of the earth, resulting from a geanticlinal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun geology A
series ofparallel anticlinal folds on aregional -scaleanticline .
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Examples
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The Los Zorros property covers the entire breadth of a regional anticlinorium in an area that is the locus of younger intrusive activity which intruded up through the fold-deformed lower Cretaceous section of volcaniclastic, siliclastic, and limestone formations and intrusive diorite sills.
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The Los Zorros property covers the entire breadth of a regional anticlinorium in an area that is the locus of younger intrusive activity which intruded up through the fold-deformed lower Cretaceous section of volcaniclastic, siliclastic, and limestone formations and intrusive diorite sills.
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