monoclinal

[ mon-uh-klahyn-l ]

adjective

1. noting, pertaining to, or composed of strata dipping in only one direction.

noun

1. monocline.

Other Words From

• mono·clinal·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of monoclinal¹

1835–45; mono- + Greek klī́n ( ein ) to incline + -al ¹

Example Sentences

A broad monoclinal fold is sometimes observed to pass into a fault of gradually increasing throw; such a fault is occasionally regarded as pivoted at one end.

From Project Gutenberg

Such bends are called monoclines, monoclinal folds or flexures, because they present only one fold, or one half of a fold, instead of the two which we see in an arch or trough.

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The explanation would appear to be that the anticline is almost a monoclinal curve,—that is to say, one slope is steep, the other not far from horizontal.

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The whole region has been subjected to many displacements, both flexures of the monoclinal type and faults.

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But that the trough is a true valley of fracture is proved by the fact that on either side it is bounded by fault scarps and monoclinal folds.

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