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anticline sentence examples

  • Along the various layers of rock a curve down is called a syncline, a curve in an upwards is called an anticline.
  • A broad anticline ( nw-se trending axis ) brings sherwood sandstone to surface at whiteabbey.
  • The producing fields are mainly hosted in tertiary and cretaceous fractured carbonate anticlines, which were formed in the late cenozoic.
  • The compression which formed the anticline will have been accompanied by flexural slip which would have " planed off " any bottom structures.

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