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Definition of Geanticlines
1. geanticline [n] - See also: geanticline
Lexicographical Neighbors of Geanticlines
Literary usage of Geanticlines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Structural Geology by Charles Kenneth Leith (1913)
"These are continents, plateaus, ocean basins, geanticlines, ... geanticlines are
merely anticlines affecting a large area. They differ only in size from ..."
2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1918)
"As to the paper itself; why might it not be equally well entitled "geanticlines
and Petroliferous Deposits?" Certainly oil occurs on more ..."
3. Transactions by American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Metallurgical Society of AIME, Society of Mining Engineers of AIME., Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (U.S.). (1918)
"As to the paper itself; why might it not be equally well entitled "geanticlines
and Petroliferous Deposits?" Certainly oil occurs on more ..."
4. An Introduction to Geology by William Berryman Scott (1914)
"Such flexures have been named by Dana geanticlines and geo- synclines, ...
geanticlines are less easy to detect, but there is evidence to show that they do ..."
5. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1894)
"By pressure the cylinder might be made elliptical, and models might be obtained
with unequal dips on the two sides. geanticlines ..."
6. A Text-book of Geology: For Use in Universities, Colleges, Schools of by Louis Valentine Pirsson, Charles Schuchert (1915)
"There are facts which go to prove that correspondingly there arc broad uplifts
which are called geanticlines. The prefix is from the Greek word signifying ..."
7. Revised Text-book of Geology by James Dwight Dana, William North Rice (1897)
"geanticlines in Mountain-making. — In the movements of the earth's crust there
would necessarily be upward as well as downward flexures,—-that is, ..."
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