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What does upwarp mean?

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Noun
  1. (geology) A broad anticline caused by local uplift.
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Like the African examples, the Rhine rift is associated with volcanism and with a regional upwarp that forms raised borders to the rift.
Monument Valley is not really a valley, but an upwarp of sedimentary rock that is at least 260 million years old, surrounded by sentinels that have yet to fully erode.
It has been detached or cut off by an upwarp of the land between it and the Black Sea region.

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