syntaxialadj.

1931 Indian Geol. Surv. Rec. 65 190 I shall lay bare the anatomy of the syntaxial area and describe the course of the various inwardly looping folds.

1988 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 326 99 North of Besham, these upright structures fold the MMT [= Main Mantle Thrust] into a syntaxial zone similar to that of Nanga Parbat.

2001 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 109 563 The western syntaxial Indian plate rocks..underwent metamorphism, melting, and deformation during the initial collision of India with Asia.

1952 M. I. Goldman in Mem. Geol. Soc. Amer. 50 7 Although Royer uses ‘epitaxie’ to designate continuous crystallographic orientation between added material and its nucleus, etymologically it means merely ‘orientation upon’. It is desirable to distinguish between the relation of added crystalline material with the same orientation as the nucleus, for which I propose syntaxy and syntaxial.

1976 Jrnl. Paleontol. 50 805/2 The sparite cement filling the interior of the tube commonly has recrystallised and syntaxial rims have developed on the exterior.

2005 Palaios 20 218/1 Disarticulated ossicles tend to be preserved in calcite, often with extensive syntaxial overgrowths.

1958 Liverpool & Manch. Geol. Jrnl. 2 15 A mosaic of grains can grow by the deposition of material in lattice-continuity with, or syntaxially with..pre-existing free crystal faces.

1989 Paleobiology 15 249/1 Calcite crystals can be grown syntaxially on the surface of echinoderm plates.

2005 Mem. Paleontol. Soc. No. 62. 17/1 Many specimens exhibit nodes or tubercles of secondary calcite that are precipitated syntaxially on chamber floors.