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adj. - Of a geological structure in which all strata are inclined in the same direction.

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  • The whole region has been subjected to many displacements, both flexures of the monoclinal type and faults.
  • On the east it descends four thousand feet by a monoclinal fold, which passes into a fault towards the north.
  • But that the trough is a true valley of fracture is proved by the fact that on either side it is bounded by fault scarps and monoclinal folds.
  • At sometime in the later part of the Cretaceous period the first breaks took place, changing the structure of the range from symmetrical to monoclinal and outlining the...
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