syncline

A syncline is a fold where the rock layers are warped downward (Figure 4 and 5).

Folding and faulting in the Earth's crust 2007

With his thin hair dyed rusty brown and brushed straight back off the wide dome of his forehead, and modish wire-framed glasses over small, heavy-lidded eyes, his face was all too familiar, its deeply creased cheeks sagging in a fine cascade of syncline folds to the crisp knot of his blue silk tie.

Mr. Murdoch Goes to War 2008

With his thin hair dyed rusty brown and brushed straight back off the wide dome of his forehead, and modish wire-framed glasses over small, heavy-lidded eyes, his face was all too familiar, its deeply creased cheeks sagging in a fine cascade of syncline folds to the crisp knot of his blue silk tie.

Mr. Murdoch Goes to War 2008

With his thin hair dyed rusty brown and brushed straight back off the wide dome of his forehead, and modish wire-framed glasses over small, heavy-lidded eyes, his face was all too familiar, its deeply creased cheeks sagging in a fine cascade of syncline folds to the crisp knot of his blue silk tie.

Mr. Murdoch Goes to War 2008

A fold in the Eliot formation, the Great Bay syncline, passes through Newington to Thomas Point, under Great Bay, then into Stratham near Bracketts Point.

Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Hampshire 2008

South Slough NERR lies along a geologic fold, or syncline, which bears its name.

South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Oregon 2008

The outcrops of basement ice shown in Figure 1 are connected by a syncline of basement ice this is a term used in geology.

Ward Hunt Ice Shelf Stratigraphy « Climate Audit 2007

When a water-bearing stratum is enclosed between two impervious layers in a syncline, the water falling on a pervious stratum runs into the synclinal basin and is stored there under pressure.

Chapter 10 1985

"The porphyry dykes here are in syncline," the engineer went on.

Rimrock Trail 1906

Now, a section drawn parallel to the earthquake-fault and on the north-east side of it, would show an anticline near the Hereford focus and a corresponding syncline near the Ross focus, with an undisplaced portion in the intermediate region; while a parallel section on the other side of the fault would show a syncline near the Hereford focus, an anticline near the Ross focus, and again an undisplaced portion in the intermediate region.

A Study of Recent Earthquakes Charles Davison 1899