English Explanatory Dictionary

miogeocline

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An area of sedimentation that occurs along the passive margin of a continent.

Word forms

miogeocline miogeoclines

Etymology

Coined in 1966 by Dietz and Holden from the miogeosyncline concept of the outdated geosynclinal theory.

Derived words

miogeoclinal
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