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    an anticline is a type of fold that is an arch-like shape and has its oldest beds at its core, whereas a syncline is the inverse of an anticline. A typical...
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    is, lines connecting points of equal dip on adjacent folded surfaces: Anticline: linear, strata normally dip away from the axial center, oldest strata...
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  • A river anticline is a geologic structure that is formed by the focused uplift of rock caused by high erosion rates from large rivers relative to the...
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  • The Oxaya anticline is a large north–south aligned anticline and buckle in the Chilean Andes west of the Altiplano Plateau. The anticline is about 60 km...
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  • Thumbnail for Weald–Artois Anticline
    The Weald–Artois Anticline, or Wealden Anticline, is a large anticline, a geological structure running between the regions of the Weald in southern England...
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  • The Mareuil Anticline, also called Mareuil-Meyssac Anticline, is a structural high within the sedimentary sequence of the northeastern Aquitaine Basin...
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    with younger layers closer to the center of the structure, whereas an anticline is the inverse of a syncline. A synclinorium (plural synclinoriums or...
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    a few meters from the Franco-Spanish border. It is an example of an anticline, a convex fold of strata, the centre of which is occupied by the oldest...
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    Rollover anticlines are anticlines related to extensional normal faults. They must be differentiated from fault-propagation folds, which are associated...
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    The Eskdale Anticline is a dip-slip fault at Whitby in North Yorkshire, England. The anticline was thought to have stretched for approximately 20 kilometres...
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  • The Portsdown Anticline is a north-facing geological fold of Tertiary age affecting rocks in Hampshire, southern England. This upfold of the local sedimentary...
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    Sheet or block and is the northern limb of the Powell Valley Anticline, a ramp anticline. The ridge exists because hard Lee-type sandstones of Early Pennsylvanian...
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    Samaan (1971), Poui (1972) and Galeota. These fields are mainly faulted anticline traps producing from depths of 1.2 to 4.2 km (0.75 to 2.61 mi) subsea...
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  • The Anticline Ridge is a ridge, southeast of Joaquin Ridge, declining from its 3,629 foot / 1,106 meter high point, Black Mountain in the north at 36°18′16″N...
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    at the crest until the anticline is filled to the spill point (the highest point where hydrocarbons can escape the anticline). This type of trap is by...
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    value over the entire surface. The dip of a curved feature, such as an anticline or syncline, will change at different points along the feature and be...
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    and low Anticline Ridge, which separates Pleasant Valley and Coalinga from Interstate 5 and the main part of the San Joaquin Valley. The anticline in Anticline...
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    The Huangling Anticline or Complex represents a group of rock units that appear in the middle of the Yangtze Block in South China, distributed across...
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  • Anticlinal may refer to: Anticline, in structural geology, an anticline is a fold that is convex up and has its oldest beds at its core Anticlinal, in...
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  • The Dean Hill Anticline is an east-west trending fold in the Cretaceous chalk of Hampshire, England. It lies immediately to the north of the Hampshire...
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    Miocene and is composed mostly of marine strata and contains two major anticlines. This block also contains the steeply-dipping Palos Verdes Hills fault...
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  • The Stockbridge Anticline is one of a series of parallel east-west trending folds in the Cretaceous chalk of Hampshire. It lies at the western end of...
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    called anticlines and synclines, respectively. If some of the units in the fold are facing downward, the structure is called an overturned anticline or syncline...
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  • The La Tour-Blanche Anticline, also called Chapdeuil Anticline or Chapdeuil-La Tour-Blanche Anticline, is a tectonically caused, dome-like upwarp in the...
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    glacial lake outburst floods caused by the breaching of the Weald-Artois Anticline, a ridge that held back a large proglacial lake, now submerged under the...
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    were part of continental Europe, linked by the unbroken Weald-Artois Anticline, a ridge that acted as a natural dam to hold back a large freshwater pro-glacial...
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    is an asymmetrical anticline. According to the Geological Survey of Western Australia, Mount Augustus is an asymmetrical anticline (rock layers that have...
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    folded during a phase of the Alpine Orogeny to produce the Weald-Artois Anticline, a dome-like structure with a long east-west axis. Erosion has removed...
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    the anticline is roughly 80 km above the lowest closing contour. Jebel Nakhsh lies at the southern boundary of the anticline. The Dukhan anticline demonstrates...
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    was a peninsula of Europe, connected by the massive chalk Weald–Artois Anticline across the Strait of Dover. During the Anglian glaciation, about 450,000...
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