monoclinal
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On the east it descends four thousand feet by a monoclinal fold, which passes into a fault towards the north.
From The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton
A broad monoclinal fold is sometimes observed to pass into a fault of gradually increasing throw; such a fault is occasionally regarded as pivoted at one end.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
The whole region has been subjected to many displacements, both flexures of the monoclinal type and faults.
From The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 by Cosmos Mindeleff
The explanation would appear to be that the anticline is almost a monoclinal curve,—that is to say, one slope is steep, the other not far from horizontal.
From The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight by J. Cecil Hughes
But that the trough is a true valley of fracture is proved by the fact that on either side it is bounded by fault scarps and monoclinal folds.
From The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton
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