User:Robert Ullmann/Prologue/examples/monocline

Wikipedia

1. (noun, geology) A unidirectional dip in strata that is not a part of an anticline or syncline
2. (noun, geology) A single flexure in otherwise flat-lying strata
3. (Italian, adjective) Feminine plural form of monoclino

English

Pronunciation

mon'-o-cline

Noun

Monocline

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

References

• Dictionary of Geological Terms (Anchor Books, 1984, edited by Robert L. Bates and Julia A. Jackson)

See also

-cline

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Italian

Adjective

monocline f.

1. Feminine plural form of monoclino