单词 | parageosyncline |
释义 | parageosynclinen. Geology. Now rare. A geosyncline situated within an older craton or (originally) at the edge of a continental craton.With the rise of the plate-tectonic model from the 1960s, the concept of geosynclines has been regarded as obsolete by most geologists. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > fold or dip > [noun] > geosyncline geosynclinal1873 geosyncline1883 parageosyncline1923 orthogeosyncline1936 eugeosyncline1942 miogeosyncline1942 miogeocline1966 eugeocline1972 1923 C. Schuchert in Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 34 199 These recording basins can not be grouped into any of the mentioned types of geosynclines, since some of them have oceanic depths, but all are actually a part of the Asiatic continent. They are marginal geosynclines or parageosynclines (geosynclines beside a continent). 1936 tr. H. Stille in Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists 20 853 Less intense orogenies..may take place in areas prepared by having been ‘special basins’ (parageosynclines) in regions that had become consolidated earlier. 1968 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 446/2 A ring of Paleozoic basins (‘parageosynclines’) surrounds both the Canadian and the Scandinavian shields. Derivatives ˌparageosynˈclinal adj. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > fold or dip > [adjective] > geosyncline geosynclinal1873 orthogeosynclinal1941 eugeosynclinal1942 miogeosynclinal1942 parageosynclinal1951 miogeoclinal1971 eugeoclinal1972 1951 Bibliogr. & Index Geol. exclusive N.Amer. 15 280 Discusses..the role of the Mediterranean–Mjösen zone, a parageosynclinal zone of subsidence during the Mesozoic. 1961 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 69 650/2 Northern Sakhalin..was characterized during the Tertiary by parageosynclinal conditions. 1986 Tectonophysics 125 242 It [sc. the East China Sea] is a basin bordered by a parageosynclinal zone where, in the Neogene, an island arc system was formed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1923 |
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