Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Sloping downward in opposite directions, as in an anticline.
- adjective Botany Of or relating to the plane of a cell division perpendicular to the surface of a plant organ.
from The Century Dictionary.
- They may be inert
- active (albuminigenous), or
- cotyloid. Vesque.
- Inclining in opposite directions from a central axis: applied to stratified rocks when they incline or dip from a central unstratified mass, or when in consequence of crust-movements they have been folded or pressed together so that they dip each way from a central plane, which indicates the line parallel to which the folding has taken place: opposed to synclinal. Occasionally anticlinic and anticlinical.
- noun In geology, an anticlinal line or axis, or an anticlinal fold; an anticlinal arrangement of strata: opposed to synclinal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Geol.) The crest or line in which strata slope or dip in opposite directions.
- adjective Inclining or dipping in opposite directions. See
synclinal . - adjective (Bot.) occurring at right angles to the surface of a plant organ.
- adjective (Geol.) a line from which strata dip in opposite directions, as from the ridge of a roof.
- adjective (Anat.) one of the dorsal vertebræ, which in many animals has an upright spine toward which the spines of the neighboring vertebræ are inclined.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Used to describe a type of
cell division in alayer ofcells that occursperpendicular to theadjacent layer of cells - adjective chemistry Describing a
torsion angle between 90° and 150° - noun geology A
fold that isconvex up and has its oldestbeds at itscore .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective sloping downward away from a common crest
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Examples
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The so-called anticlinal structures, which have been found by experience to be so favorable to the accumulation of oil, are by no means symmetrical in shape or uniform in size.
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England is disturbed by two great swells, forming what are called anticlinal axes, one of which divides the London from the Hampshire basin, while the other passes through the Isle of Wight, both throwing the strata down at violent inclination towards the north, as if the subterranean disturbing force had WAVED forward in that direction.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836
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The Yakima Folds ecoregion consists of unforested anticlinal ridges composed of layer upon layer of basalt many thousands of feet thick.
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The plateau is locally punctuated by a limestone valley and a few anticlinal ridges.
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA) 2008
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The principal Formation is orientated in an east-west direction, and comprises both a long anticlinal and synclinal, the latter elevated over some degrees.
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The ridge trended north-west, as most others did in this extensive basin; and this direction being nearly parallel to that of the coast ranges further northward, seemed to afford additional reason for expecting to find anticlinal and synclinal lines, and, consequently, rivers, much in the same direction.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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In 1814 the English geologist Thomas Webster published a description of the geology of the Isle of Wight in which he showed that the chalk strata forming the central range of hills in the island were vertical or very steeply inclined and that they formed one side of an anticlinal fold, the opposite side of which, he discovered on the south shore of the Isle of Wight.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas LEONARD G. WILSON 1968
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We found our way in here, "he jerked his head toward his amateur tunnel," by accident, in Thompson's time, one day when the stope happened to be empty; and we burrowed on to what looked like the anticlinal, before we heard the stope shift coming and had to slide out.
The La Chance Mine Mystery Susan Morrow Jones
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The more scientific generally select a spot either on the anticlinal or synclinal axis of the formation, giving preference to the former position.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs
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There is ample proof throughout the country of alterations of level within recent geologic periods; and there have even been compressions, resulting in a relative rise of the ground, over the crests of anticlinal folds, within historic record.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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