geanticlinen.
/dʒiːˈantɪklʌɪn/ Geology.
= geanticlinal n.
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1895 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. (ed. 4) 389 A mountain range includes all the mountain ridges made over the area and border of a single geanticline.
1925 J. Joly Surface-hist. Earth vii The first Rocky Mountains geanticline came into existence in closing Carboniferous (early Pennsylvanian) time.
1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. i. 14 Lake Poso..is probably a remnant of an old surface that escaped the general Pleistocene uplift which affected two geanticlines east and west of the lake.
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