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What is a syncline?

What is a syncline? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (geology) A concave-upward fold in rock strata
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Lowered strata develop into synclines, and a circular depression called a rim syncline may encircle or nearly encircle the domal uplift.
At the end of August 2008, the tunnel boring machine in the east tunnel was parked around 100 m ahead of the Piora syncline.
The displacement of the thrust sheet produces two anticlines and a syncline.
East of the Sakami fault and in continuity with the arenites, an anticline and a syncline are recognized, in an ESE direction.
It is located on the eastern flank of the In Rabir syncline in volcanic-sedimentary formations.
A westward thickening wedge of Cretaceous-Tertiary strata overlie a broad Lower Paleozoic syncline.

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