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- either symmetrically or asymmetrically. The upfolds are anticlines and the downfolds are synclines. Severely folded and faulted rocks are called nappes. In...
- either symmetrically or asymmetrically. The upfolds are anticlines and the downfolds are synclines: in asymmetric folding there may also be re****bent and overturned...
- with the NE junction of the Badzhalsky anticlinal lifting with the Gorin downfold Left s**** of the Amur, in the basins of the Silinki and Gorin tributaries...
- detached from the rest of the Watchungs because it occupies a local syncline (downfold) that is itself somewhat detached from the main Watchung syncline by an...
- sedimentary rock sequence is paralleled by the Bere Forest/Chichester Syncline (downfold) about 2km to its north and a postulated deep fault to the north again...
- an anticline is an arch-like fold whereas a syncline is its converse; a downfold. Antiforms, anticlinoria, synforms and synclinoria are variations on these...
- to down warping along elongate zones, each belt is essentially a large downfold or downfaulted block.: 25  The areas between individual belts are fault...