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Definition of Cataclinal
1. Adjective. Of valleys and rivers; running in the direction of the dip in surrounding rock strata.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cataclinal
Literary usage of Cataclinal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geographical Essays by William Morris Davis (1909)
"Such streams are cataclinal for a time, ... they would have all been cataclinal,
as they ran down from the mountains, and turned into synclinal valleys at ..."
2. Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and Its Tributaries: Explored by John Wesley Powell, Smithsonian Institution, Almon Harris Thompson, Elliott Coues, George Brown Goode (1875)
"Those on the north, which head near the summit of the range, and, running down
the flank, turn into Green River, are, in their upper courses, cataclinal, ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1876)
"A cataclinal VALLEY. is very complex. He divides the valleys into two orders,
transverse and longitudinal. Of the first order three varieties are noticed: ..."
4. Garrett County by Maryland Geological Survey, Geological Survey (U.S.) (1902)
"It is therefore in large part a cataclinal and probably a consequent stream; but
its headwaters have broken their way into the region behind or east of the ..."
5. A General Report on the Physiography of Maryland by Cleveland Abbe (1898)
"Many instances of such a cataclinal or down-the-dip shifting of divides are
furnished by the Fio. 5.—Diagram illustrating shifting of divide iu a region of ..."
6. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Mines (1920)
"cataclinal. Extending in the direction of the dip : said of a valley. (Standard)
Cataclysm. 1. Any overwhelming flood of water ; especially, the Noachian ..."
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