Syncline is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 175 anagrams from letters in syncline (ceilnnsy).
First recorded in 1870-75; back formation from synclinal
Looking north from the Central Downs over the Solent we are looking at a syncline.
When the arch is reversed, like this , it is called a syncline.
We must lean together in the common struggle of life: the syncline is stronger than the anticline.
There each mountain-ridge corresponds to an anticline, and each valley to a syncline, or trough-shaped arrangement of strata.
Hence the anticline noses out to the north and the syncline to the south.
"The porphyry dykes here are in syncline," the engineer went on.
On the north shore of the Island the strata rise slightly on the northern side of the syncline.
The whole mountain is part of a syncline, the beds dipping into it from the north-west and south-east.
A downfold, where the strata dip from either side toward the axis of the trough, is called a syncline (Fig. 170).
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