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Definition of Anticline
1. n. A structure of bedded rocks in which the beds on both sides of an axis or axial plane dip away from the axis; an anticlinal.
Definition of Anticline
1. Noun. (geology) A fold with strata sloping downwards on each side. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Anticline
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anticline
Literary usage of Anticline
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Results of Primary Triangulation and Primary Traverse: Fiscal Year 1904-05 by Samuel Stinson Gannett (1905)
"Platt described the Glade Run anticline as beginning in the vicinity of Echo and
... No trace of such an anticline was detected near Echo during the present ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1897)
"This last anticline is in the same strike as one crossed by Baker creek near ...
In this same strike Mr. Means reports an anticline crossed by the Old Line ..."
3. Principles of Oil and Gas Production by Roswell Hill Johnson, Louis Grow Huntley (1916)
"anticline An anticline may for some purposes be analyzed into the two anti- ...
An anticline which arises from an acline on each side, rather than lying ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1915)
"It is readily seen that it is analogous to an anticline and would become one if
... Similarly, an anticline tilted sufficiently becomes an anti-monocline. ..."
5. Oil and Gas in Bond, Macoupin, and Montgomery Counties, Illinois by Raymond Silliman Blatchley (1914)
"(6) AYERS anticline The beds are arched into a wide and gently plunging anticline
... The anticline is flanked on the south by a decided depression near ..."
6. Geology and Oil Possibilities of the Northern Part of Overton County, Tenn by Charles Butts (1919)
"The extension of the anticline to the northeast and southwest is not known.
Dry Fork anticline A low anticline shows plainly on Dry Fork of Mill Creek just ..."
7. The Geography of Illinois by Douglas Clay Ridgley (1921)
"The best-known LA SALLE anticline AT UTICA, LA SALLE COUNTY This diagram shows the
... Farther south the La Salle anticline disappears at the surface, ..."
8. Bulletin by Kentucky Geological Survey, Kentucky State Geologist (1912)
"STRUCTURE IN UNION COUNTY NORTH OF THE ROUGH CREEK anticline. The area examined
included also the part of Union county lying north of the Rough Creek ..."
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