English Explanatory Dictionary

monocline

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A unidirectional dip in strata that is not a part of an anticline or syncline
  2. A single flexure in otherwise flat-lying strata

Word forms

monocline monoclines

Etymology

From mono- + -cline.

Related words

syncline anticline
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