anticlinal

[ an-ti-klahyn-l ]

adjective

1. inclining in opposite directions from a central axis.
2. Geology.
   1. inclining downward on both sides from a median line or axis, as a fold of rock strata.
   2. pertaining to such a fold.

Word History and Origins

Origin of anticlinal¹

1825–35; < Greek antiklī́n ( ein ) to lean against each other ( anti- anti- + klī́nein to lean ¹ ) + -al ¹

Example Sentences

The field was an anticlinal structure 80 kilometers long and 15 kilometers wide and had 10 pays, Cretaceous through Miocene.

From Forbes

Section of anticlinal valleys and synclinal mountains 78 17.

From Project Gutenberg

Where they dip away from the axis of movement the structure is termed an anticline or anticlinal fold; where they dip towards the axis, it is a syncline or synclinal fold.

From Project Gutenberg

Nearly the whole of our English Eocene strata lies in these two basins, having been denuded away from the anticlinal arches.

From Project Gutenberg

The hills are formed by a short, broad, anticlinal fold, which is flat or nearly so on its summit.

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