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What does anticlinal mean?

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Adjective
  1. Inclining or dipping in opposite directions.
  2. (botany) Used to describe a type of cell division in a layer of cells that occurs perpendicular to the adjacent layer of cells.
  3. (chemistry) Describing a torsion angle between 90° and 150°
  4. (geology) Consisting of, related to, or part of an anticline.
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The asymmetry of folds at shallower levels in the overburden sequence suggest that the original anticlinal ridges at the base of the overburden sequence were cuspate.
The origin of this circular anticlinal structure has been the subject of a longstanding debate.
These elongate anticlinal domes have gentle to moderate dips on their flanks, and are cut by several thrust faults that may be linked to a deeper system.
This process is initiated by anticlinal and periclinal divisions of a few callus cells only.
Low-grade volcanic and sedimentary rocks are widely exposed within this elongate anticlinal window.
These subterranean muds are being uplifted into steeply dipping, anticlinal structures cored by strike-slip faulting.

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