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syncline

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

[′sin‚klīn]
(geology)
A fold having stratigraphically younger rock material in its core; it is concave upward.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Syncline

 

a fold of stratified rock that is convex downward. Younger rocks occur in a syncline’s core rather than on its limbs. Synclines alternate with anticlines— folds of rock strata that are convex upward.

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