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Definition of Monoclines
1. monocline [n] - See also: monocline
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monoclines
Literary usage of Monoclines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geology of Petroleum by William Harvey Emmons (1921)
"monoclines Sealed By Faults.—Some faults afford channels along which fluids escape.
... Some oil pools are on monoclines sealed up the dip by faults. ..."
2. Bulletin by Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology (1905)
"Several low lava-bed monoclines, of gentle dip to the southwest, extend southeast
from the detached block ; they gradually dip underground near the southern ..."
3. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1894)
"It is favorable to this hypothesis that the sandstone is admitted to be in
monoclines; that the trap ridges look like monoclines, the trap and sandstone so ..."
4. Geographical Essays by William Morris Davis (1909)
"The best examples noted are seen on the low lava monoclines, just mentioned,
where faint benches are developed; in the embayment of the main depression that ..."
5. Mining Engineers' Handbook by Robert Peele (1918)
"monoclines which involve porous beds, such as open-textured sandstones tight
shales, are sometimes important places for accumulation and storage oj gas and ..."
6. Practical Oil Geology: The Application of Geology to Oil Field Problems by Dorsey Hager (1919)
"It is upon these great monoclines that the minor folds are found. ... The dips
on these monoclines are regional dips because the dips extend over large ..."
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