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syncline
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syncline
a downward fold of stratified rock in which the strata slope towards a vertical axis

syncline [′sin‚klīn]
(geology)
A fold having stratigraphically younger rock material in its core; it is concave upward.


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Trenching exposed two flat lying veins that are separated by about 2 metres and are gently folded into a SE plunging open synform.
The chromitite layers are part of a large-scale, northeasterly-plunging synform.
 
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