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anticlinorium Geol.|ˌæntɪklɪˈnɔərɪəm|
[mod.L., f. as anticlinal + -orium.]
1. (See quot.)
1874J. D. Dana Man. Geol. (ed. 2) IV. 752 An upward bend of the crust, or geanticlinal, is of itself an elevation; and such an elevation is an anticlinorium.
2. (See quot. 1893.) (The only current sense.)
189313th Ann. Rep. U.S. Geol. Surv. ii. 220 It often happens that the result of the combination of many anticlines and synclines is to form a complex structure, which, regarded as a whole, is either synclinal or anticlinal. The former is called a synclinorium, the latter an anticlinorium. 1920J. Geikie Struct. & Field Geol. (ed. 4) ix. 142 When a broad zone has bulged up under lateral pressure..we may have one great arch composed of numerous subordinate wrinkles or minor folds and flexures. A complex arch of this kind is termed an Anticlinorium. 1938Geogr. Jrnl. XCI. 281 The whole San Carlos range is an arcuate anticlinorium trending east—west with convexity to the south.
Hence ˌanticliˈnorial a., of or pertaining to an anticlinorium.
1940Geogr. Jrnl. XCV. 332 On the west Burma is separated from India by a complex anticlinorial fold of Alpine-Himalayan age. |