The park's principal geomorphic feature is the north-east to south-east geosyncline which is surrounded by raised folds and high mountains. From Wordnik.com. [Darién National Park, Panama] Reference
"geosyncline," a vast trough, or cradle, being slowly filled with sediment brought down by the rivers from the adjoining shores. From Wordnik.com. [Time and Change] Reference
Well, where it faltered was at the edge of a geosyncline, the orogenesis is much later than this area. From Wordnik.com. [Dinosaur Planet]
This ecoregion is relatively young, perhaps less than 10,000 years old, and developed in a great geosyncline between the Guiana Plateau and the Andes Range. From Wordnik.com. [Llanos] Reference
Mesozoic times had collected in the geosyncline formed by their own ever increasing weight. From Wordnik.com. [The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays] Reference
The mountain range can only arise where the geosyncline is deeply filled by long ages of sedimentation. From Wordnik.com. [The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays] Reference
Again, the ancient and modern volcanoes and earthquakes of Europe are associated with the geosyncline of the greater Mediterranean, the. From Wordnik.com. [The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays] Reference
The Alps and the Himalayas, much younger than our Appalachians, were also begotten and nursed in the cradle of a vast geosyncline in the. From Wordnik.com. [Time and Change] Reference
When yielding has begun in any geosyncline, and the materials are faulted and overthrust, there results a considerably increased thickness. From Wordnik.com. [The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays] Reference
Now, let us suppose, in the trough of the geosyncline, and upon the top of the normal layer, a deposit of, say, 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) of sediments is formed during a long period of continental denudation. From Wordnik.com. [The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays] Reference
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