synclinal — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Having or relating to a torsion angle between 30° and 90°

2. Inclined downward from opposite directions, so as to meet in a common point or line.

   Examples

   The doctor's eyebrows had gone synclinal from puzzlement without his awareness.

3. Formed by strata dipping toward a common line or plane.

   Examples

   a synclinal trough or valley

   a synclinal fold

Noun

1. A synclinal fold.

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   But being chiefly sections of younger rocks than ours, the Austrian diagrams exhibit a more disturbed surface, so far as regards faults and slips, snapped anticlinals, upshoved synclinals, lapped folds, […]

Adjective

1. sloping downward toward each other to create a trough

   Antonyms

   anticlinal