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Definition of Flexures
1. flexure [n] - See also: flexure
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flexures
Literary usage of Flexures
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science, with Special by James Dwight Dana (1876)
"flexures of the crust and its strata, fractures, earthquakes. 2. ... flexures,
FRACTURES. The sudden production of vapors beneath a portion of the earth's ..."
2. The Principles and Practice of Gynaecology by Thomas Addis Emmet (1884)
"52.75 per cent, of all the flexures were of the cervix, and 47.24 per cent, ...
The proportion of unmarried was 09.06 per cent, for flexures of the cervix ..."
3. The Geological Story Briefly Told: An Introduction to Geology for the by James Dwight Dana (1876)
"Mountain ranges have been made, for the most part, through bendings of the earth's
crust, and the upturning and flexures of the rocks. 1. Upturned rocks. ..."
4. Anatomy of the brain and spinal cord with special reference to mechanism and by Harris Ellett Santee (1907)
"flexures (Fig. 118).—The cephalic portion of the neural tube is the seat of three
flexures, two ventral and one dorsal, (1) The mesencephalic flexure ..."
5. The Geological Observer by Henry Thomas De La Beche (1851)
"The longitudinal dislocations (and some in Virginia have a length exceeding 100
miles) are inferred to be broken flexures, the fracture almost invariably ..."
6. Earth Sculpture; Or, The Origin of Land-forms by James Geikie (1898)
"DIAGRAM OF MOUNTAIN flexures. The arrow shows the direction of thrust. fan-structure
seen in the anticlinal double-fold, Fig. 36. Now and again, too, ..."
7. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1889)
"After the formation of a series of S-shaped flexures in the ordinary manner (Fig.
1), the direction of the pressure relatively to the bed has changed, ..."
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