geosyncline

The park's principal geomorphic feature is the north-east to south-east geosyncline which is surrounded by raised folds and high mountains.

Darién National Park, Panama 2008

"geosyncline," a vast trough, or cradle, being slowly filled with sediment brought down by the rivers from the adjoining shores.

Time and Change John Burroughs 1879

Well, where it faltered was at the edge of a geosyncline, the orogenesis is much later than this area.

Cattle Town 2010

This ecoregion is relatively young, perhaps less than 10,000 years old, and developed in a great geosyncline between the Guiana Plateau and the Andes Range.

Llanos 2007

Well, where it faltered was at the edge of a geosyncline, the orogenesis is much later than this area.

Dinosaur Planet McCaffrey, Anne 1978

"Evidently then," continued the professor, "the atoll is simply an annular terminal moraine of detritus shed alluvially into the sea, thus leaving a geosyncline of volcanic ash embedded with an occasional trilobite and the fragments of scoria, upon which we now stand."

The Cruise of the Kawa 1911

Mesozoic times had collected in the geosyncline formed by their own ever increasing weight.

The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895

Again, the ancient and modern volcanoes and earthquakes of Europe are associated with the geosyncline of the greater Mediterranean, the

The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895

When yielding has begun in any geosyncline, and the materials are faulted and overthrust, there results a considerably increased thickness.

The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895

Now, let us suppose, in the trough of the geosyncline, and upon the top of the normal layer, a deposit of, say, 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) of sediments is formed during a long period of continental denudation.

The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895