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Definition of Anticlines
1. anticline [n] - See also: anticline
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anticlines
Literary usage of Anticlines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Examination of Prospects: A Mining Geology by Charles Godfrey Gunther (1912)
"In many cases this appears to be the result of local impounding of ascending
solutions at the tops of anticlines that are capped by strata of impervious ..."
2. Handbook on Petroleum for Inspectors Under the Petroleum Acts and for Those by J. H. Thomson, Boverton Redwood (1906)
"Owing to difference of density the oil and water present separate into two layers,
the upper consisting of oil which fills the anticlines, whilst the water ..."
3. Contributions to Economic Geology (short Papers and Preliminary Reports) 1917 by F. L. Ransome, E F Burchard, Hoyt S Gale, Geological Survey (U.S.), David White, Geological Survey (U.S. (1918)
"RELATION TO GUSHING Anticlines. The combined extent of the North and South Catfish
anticlines is about 4 miles, and, if taken together, they are comparable ..."
4. Elements of Geology: A Text-book for Colleges and for the General Reader by Joseph Le Conte (1879)
"149 represents a section in which the anticlines or original ridges have become
... In both anticlines and synclines the strata are repeated on each side of ..."
5. Geology of the Mid Continent Oilfields, Kansas, Oklahoma and North Texas by Thomas Owen Bosworth (1920)
"Anticlines IN A PART OF OSAGE COUNTY - (After US Geol. ... The folds consist of
irregular domes, anticlines, "noses" * and terraces, with intervening basins ..."
6. Studies in Minor Folds by Charles Elijah Decker (1920)
"Syncline between two anticlines near Andover, Ohio Syncline. ... As in anticlines,
so in synclines the axial planes may be vertical or inclined, ..."
7. California Mines and Minerals by California Miners' Association (1899)
"Anticlines exercise great influence upon the accumulation of natural petroleum oil
... Numerous smaller anticlines branch in all directions from these main ..."
8. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1897)
"Exposures of igneous rocks are common in [the region of these small anticlines.
Amity Anticline.—The Amity anticline is first noticed as a nose on the Caddo ..."
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