monoclinal

American  

[mon-uh-klahyn-l] / ˌmɒn əˈklaɪn l /

adjective

1. noting, pertaining to, or composed of strata dipping in only one direction.

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noun

1. monocline.

Other Word Forms

• monoclinally
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of monoclinal

1835–45; mono- + Greek klī́n ( ein ) to incline + -al ¹

Example Sentences

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monoclinal

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

Such bends are called monoclines, monoclinal folds or flexures, because they present only one fold, or one half of a fold, instead of the two which we see in an arch or trough.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various

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