The so-called anticlinal structures, which have been found by experience to be so favorable to the accumulation of oil, are by no means symmetrical in shape or uniform in size.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economic Aspect of Geology] Reference

The plateau is locally punctuated by a limestone valley and a few anticlinal ridges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)] Reference

The Yakima Folds ecoregion consists of unforested anticlinal ridges composed of layer upon layer of basalt many thousands of feet thick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Oregon (EPA)] Reference

Gold-Field, a distance a little over thirty miles to the northeast, intersecting in that distance no less than six great anticlinal folds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864] Reference

The more scientific generally select a spot either on the anticlinal or synclinal axis of the formation, giving preference to the former position.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference

The principal Formation is orientated in an east-west direction, and comprises both a long anticlinal and synclinal, the latter elevated over some degrees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miguasha Provincial Park, Canada] Reference

There is ample proof throughout the country of alterations of level within recent geologic periods; and there have even been compressions, resulting in a relative rise of the ground, over the crests of anticlinal folds, within historic record.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

We found our way in here, "he jerked his head toward his amateur tunnel," by accident, in Thompson's time, one day when the stope happened to be empty; and we burrowed on to what looked like the anticlinal, before we heard the stope shift coming and had to slide out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The La Chance Mine Mystery] Reference

The points at which the east and west anticlinal lines are intersected by north and south lines of upheaval form the localities in which the quartzite group of gold-bearing rocks are brought to the surface, and it is here that their outcroppings form the surface of the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864] Reference

The ridge trended north-west, as most others did in this extensive basin; and this direction being nearly parallel to that of the coast ranges further northward, seemed to afford additional reason for expecting to find anticlinal and synclinal lines, and, consequently, rivers, much in the same direction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia] Reference

May Hill anticlinal and Hereford earthquake, connection between, 242.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Recent Earthquakes] Reference

Woolhope anticlinal and Hereford earthquake, connection between, 241.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Recent Earthquakes] Reference

The anticlinal fault of Charnwood Forest dates from a pre-carboniferous period.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Recent Earthquakes] Reference

The anticlinal axis runs approximately north-west and south-east, and is thus roughly parallel to the earthquake-fault.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Recent Earthquakes] Reference

Data are insufficient, however, to indicate the extent to which the anticlinal areas are really areas of maximum shearing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economic Aspect of Geology] Reference

The properties are located over 2 anticlinal structures which stretch for 6 miles, and 7 miles generating over 13 miles of trend.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference

Ascending a lofty spur, 1000 feet above the valley, against which the moraine was banked, I found it to be a distinct anticlinal axis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Himalayan Journals — Complete] Reference

As frivolously as i apartments in dubai the current, it subjoining anticlinal to get quarterly to the carboy and sonority my own formicary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

The combined leased acreage (Koliba) consists of 79 acres covering an anticipated anticlinal structure (target) with offsetting production.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strategic American Oil Corporation Enters Into Drilling Contract for Koliba #3 Well - Yahoo! Finance] Reference

But only a few miles to the south-east of the Woolhope anticlinal, and almost in the same line with it, there is a second anticlinal, that of.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Recent Earthquakes] Reference

The Dzata discovery, in a Cenomanian/Albian faulted anticlinal trap, opens a new prospective trend in the eastern part of the prolific Tano Basin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

It is not clear to the writer that the interior adjustment assumed under this hypothesis is necessarily slowed up or stopped by anticlinal buckling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economic Aspect of Geology] Reference

That these strata have also probably undergone an immense depression, that they are now inclined at high angles and form regular or complicated anticlinal lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference

An anticlinal fold is attacked by erosion as soon as it begins to rise above the original level, and the higher it is uplifted, and the stronger are its slopes, the faster is it worn away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Geology] Reference

Significantly, the magnetite banded iron formation occurs as an anticlinal fold rather than a single sequence with the southern end of the western limb being tested by the current drilling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference

Old Red Sandstone (Fig. 64), but, just to the north-east of the position laid down for the originating fault (indicated by the straight broken line), is the well-known Woolhope anticlinal, by which.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Recent Earthquakes] Reference

Whether this be the case or not, however, it is clear that the earthquake-fault must pass between the anticlinal areas of Woolhope and May Hill, the former being on the north-east, and the latter on the south-west, side of the fault.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Recent Earthquakes] Reference

At this point the road makes a great curve, almost like a horseshoe; at the middle of this curve there rises to the right of the road a wall of limestone rock the plainly defined strata of which are thrown into a gentle anticlinal fold.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Indian Mexico (1908)] Reference

The upheaval has taken place by a great number of (nearly) N. and S. lines; which in most cases have formed as many anticlinal and synclinal ravines; the strata in the highest pinnacles are almost universally inclined at an angle from 70 deg to 80 deg.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference

The South Wall with its three distinctive stratigraphic stacked zones occurs on the steep limb of a large anticlinal fold, and is correlative with the RW Zone that occurs on the shallow dipping upright limb of the fold (see figures at www. constantinemetals.com).    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference

In this sketch-map, the lightly-shaded bands correspond to an upper series of crystalline schists, and the cross-shaded bands to the lower series of mica-schists and dolomites that form the anticlinal folds of the Sierra de Ronda, the Sierra de Mijas, and the Sierra Tejeda.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Recent Earthquakes] Reference

T12 is the anticlinal vertebra with a vertical neural spine (.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

153 to the south were the most drawn-out towards the north: or again we might say that the synclinal or deep-seated part of the fold has lagged behind the anticlinal or what was originally the highest part of the fold, in the advance of the latter to the north.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays] Reference

Geology, upward fold. anticlinal, adj. anticlinorium.    From Wordnik.com.  [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference