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What is a geosyncline?

What is a geosyncline? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (geology) A large, linear depression in the Earth's crust in which sediment accumulates.
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The Allamber Project is located 175 kilometers southeast of Darwin and covers 482 square kilometers within the prospective Pine Creek Geosyncline.
Both Permian perrinitid ammonoid areas are located within the transitional belt between the active geosyncline and the adjacent stable platform.
The Karadag mountain massif represents the composite volcanic facility of the Jurassic period, formed at the base of the Carpathian-Crimean-Caucasus geosyncline.
Todd Project is situated within the southeastern portion of the Early Proterozoic Pine Creek Geosyncline.
Areas marginal to continental masses continued to receive turbidites, particularly in the Ouachita-Marathon region of Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas and the Cordilleran geosyncline in the western United States.
Devonian rocks are known in eastern Australia in a belt from Queensland to Tasmania as part of the Tasman geosyncline.

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