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What is an anticline?

What is an anticline? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (geology) A fold with strata sloping downwards on each side.
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In its hanging wall, however, a drag fold syncline and a rollover anticline developed.
The zone on the whole represents a huge anticline, or series of stratified arches.
The result is a monoclinal rollover anticline, its tightness increasing progressively with continued fault displacement.
East of the Sakami fault and in continuity with the arenites, an anticline and a syncline are recognized, in an ESE direction.
The imbricated zone becomes progressively narrower towards the east and terminates somewhere east of the Irchel anticline.
In this locality, the top 20 m of the Asmari Limestone exhibits palaeo-weathering along joints suggesting subaerial exposure of the Asmari near the crest of an anticline.

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