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Definition of Overfolds
1. overfold [v] - See also: overfold
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overfolds
Literary usage of Overfolds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Stone; an Illustrated Magazine (1897)
"It is therefore clear that in the same mountain mass there may be all gradations
between clean-cut thrust faults and overfolds without faults. ..."
2. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1889)
"The chief interest in this district is in the evidence afforded of the double
folding, and in the overfolds on the north and on the south being ..."
3. Principles of North American Pre-Cambrian Geology by Charles Richard Van Hise, Leander Miller Hoskins (1896)
"replaced by overfolds to the northwest. Also the transition may be transverse.
In the latter case, if erosion cuts the strata to different depths after such ..."
4. Structural and Field Geology for Students of Pure and Applied Science by James Geikie (1905)
"UNSYMMETRICAL FLEXURES: overfolds. is frequently termed Inversion. Unsymmetrical and
closely compressed symmetrical folds not infrequently occur together, ..."
5. Sculpture: The Reliefs from the Theater by Mary C. Sturgeon (1977)
"Usually the overfolds of Classical types are belted, and the material is sometimes
... In the Magnesia frieze'9 the Amazons wear their overfolds belted, ..."
6. Summary of Progress of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and the Museum by Geological Survey of Great Britain (1907)
"Farther to the south they show the characteristic overfolds and ... The Coal-measures
there show repeated small overthrusts and overfolds from the south, ..."
7. The Mining Engineer (1897)
"the excellence of the available sections, are of easy interpretation. The writer
refers here to the domes and to the overfolds and over- ..."
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