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What is a monocline?

What is a monocline? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (geology) A unidirectional dip in strata that is not a part of an anticline or syncline
  2. (geology) A single flexure in otherwise flat-lying strata
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Ductile fabrics and tectonic boundaries in the southern part of the Cine massif outline a large-scale monocline, the tectonic significance of which is not known.
Thus, the tight folds in the Tapeats Sandstone can be explained by mechanical crowding at the synclinal hinge of the East Kaibab monocline.
The focus of this paper is the coal lands east of the geological Du Quoin monocline in Jackson, Saline and Williamson counties of southeastern Illinois.
A deformed prism with plane-parallel sides is the monocline stage.
Divergence between strepsirrhines and haplorhines is correlated with intense volcanic activity on the Lebombo Monocline in Africa about 180 million years ago.
The southern end of the Rockies plunges gradually along its sharp frontal downflex and passes into the Anton Chico monocline.

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