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Monocline

noun
1.
A geological formation in which all strata are inclined in the same direction.





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... place is in the Southern Appalachian Mountains of eastern Tennessee and northern Georgia. Here we have the Carboniferous strata dipping gently to the southeast, like an ordinary low monocline, under Cambrian or Lower Silurian, one of these so-called faults having a reported length of 375 miles,[44] while in another instance the upper strata are said to have been pushed about eleven miles in the direction of ...
— Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation • George McCready Price


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