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What are anticlines?

What are anticlines? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of anticline
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In this case the folds found within the Miocene sediments have been interpreted as extensional folding in the form of the ramp anticlines and drag folds.
Large-scale geological structures including anticlines, synclines, thrusts and faults formed during the Caledonian Orogeny typically trend in a SW-NE direction.
Following the intrusion of basic dykes in the late Palacocene, the whole of the post-Zechstein succession was gently folded into a series of major synclines and anticlines.
In the process, domes, cavities, faults and anticlines were created.
It has been previously reported that because of extension of the outer arc of such anticlines, graben form above their crests.
Bozkurt mainly provides a short, but incomplete, summary of previous work on field characteristics of extensional folds, including rollover anticlines.

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