synclinal


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Related to synclinal: anticlinal, Anticlinorium, Synclinorium
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sloping downward toward each other to create a trough

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It crops out in a restricted area in the synclinal structure to the north of Kucukkuyu near Adatepe village.
The Vrancea Depression is a synclinal one and due to its magnitude it is composed of three smaller depressions, in order from North to South: the Soveja depression and the Naruja and Nereju depressions.
The main target for the CGS study in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania is the Baltic Basin (700 km x 500 km synclinal structure), a Late Ediacaran-Phanerozoic polygenetic sedimentary basin that developed in a pericratonic setting in the western part of the East European Platform.
Beneath the Mesozoic cover there are two northerly trending arches which separate three synclinal areas: one along the Libyan border to the east, one near the Moroccan border in the far west, and one lying in the centre of Algeria.
(1987): The Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in a sector of the South Limb of the Miranda-Trevino Synclinal: the first appearance of Chelonia and Archosauria in the Basque Country.
The shape of the structure appears to be defining anticlinal and synclinal patterns (Figure 6(b)).
A aproximacao synclinal como descrito em B e impedida nas reacoes envolvendo 98a e 99b devido as interacoes estericas entre o grupo Boc (R) e o anel oxazolidinona, porem deve ser considerada na formacao do maior estereoisomero na reacao das 2etoxipiperidinas 99b e 99c.
The tetrasiladiene skeleton of 52 is not planar but highly twisted with an anticlinal conformation (the Si1-Si2-Si3-Si4 dihedral angle = 122.56(7)[degrees]), while known tetrasila-1,3-dienes 54 (56) and 55 (54b) have a synclinal conformation (Chart 7).
The orientation of the synclinal axis is approximately parallel to the valley and perpendicular to the orientation of striae.
The Cetatii Hill from Bistrita (680 m) rises above the Bistrita Ardeleana couloir and the Dumitra Depression as a narrow crest on a synclinal slope carved on Jabenita conglomerates, preserving vestiges of a middle-age earth fortress, represented by enclosures, ditches, earth mounds and slopes.
This basin is a synclinal structure (Luedecke, 1896; Sansoni, 1971) with a long axis running for about 20 km along the southern rim of the Harz, between Bad Sachsa on the west and Neustadt on the east; the town of Ilfeld lies within its eastern third.
The phosphate deposits of Tunisia are all sediments, found in Metlaoui Formation in the southern part of the Tunis basin- the anticlinal deposits of the Gafsa region and the perched synclinal deposits of the Tebessa-Thala region.
Thus, the tight folds in the Tapeats Sandstone can be explained by mechanical crowding at the synclinal hinge of the East Kaibab monocline.