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A second constraint on the timescale of canyon filling relates to the cyclic stratigraphy documented at the Umberatana syncline example.
The displacement of the thrust sheet produces two anticlines and a syncline.
At several localities a west-verging footwall syncline has developed as a consequence of westward transport on the overlying thrust sheet.
In its hanging wall, however, a drag fold syncline and a rollover anticline developed.
The Piora syncline is also successfully mastered in the west tunnel of the Gotthard Base Tunnel.
Advancing at a rate of 10 to 12 m per day, the tunnel boring machine made good progress through the approximately 150-metres-long Piora syncline.
At the end of August 2008, the tunnel boring machine in the east tunnel was parked around 100 m ahead of the Piora syncline.
The Piora syncline was a key point in the geology, since its structure and extent were initially unclear.
A westward thickening wedge of Cretaceous-Tertiary strata overlie a broad Lower Paleozoic syncline.
East of the Sakami fault and in continuity with the arenites, an anticline and a syncline are recognized, in an ESE direction.
Lowered strata develop into synclines, and a circular depression called a rim syncline may encircle or nearly encircle the domal uplift.
Construction work began on the Piora test bore system in 1993, which in 1998 delivered clear results regarding the geology of the Piora syncline.
It is located on the eastern flank of the In Rabir syncline in volcanic-sedimentary formations.
Remapping of several nunataks and ridge exposures reveals that the basal Neptune Group truncates a large-scale, closed syncline, developed within the Nelson Limestone.
At the time when the trough of the syncline was worked, it was decided to abandon the wall vein of seam I because of the poor quality of the coal.
The annular syncline, the basement rock dome and erosion resistant strata of the overturned collar help define the ring structure of the meteorite impact structure.
A large E-W-oriented syncline crosses the Wabamisk property.
Basin, in geology, a broad shallow trough or syncline, a structure in the bedrock, not to be confused with a physiographic river basin, although the two may coincide.
Groundbreaking ceremony for the Piora exploratory bore system: the position, extent and geological-hydrogeological characteristics of the Piora syncline will be investigated.
The domaine is located 500m above sea level in a natural syncline that gives it a unique microclimate.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Looking north from the Central Downs over the Solent we are looking at a syncline.
There each mountain-ridge corresponds to an anticline, and each valley to a syncline, or trough-shaped arrangement of strata.
A downfold, where the strata dip from either side toward the axis of the trough, is called a syncline.
On the north shore of the Island the strata rise slightly on the northern side of the syncline.
The whole mountain is part of a syncline, the beds dipping into it from the north-west and south-east.
Hence the anticline noses out to the north and the syncline to the south.
When the arch is reversed, like this, it is called a syncline.
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