单词	downwarp
释义	downwarp /ˈdaʊnwɔːp / Geology noun A broad depression of the earth’s surface.For several generations of geologists the name of J. D. Dana was associated with the concept of the geosyncline, an elongated downwarp in the Earth's crust in which a great volume of sediments accumulated.... The WIlkes Front architecture consists of thin, extended crust forming the Victoria Land Basin in the Ross Sea, the TAM rift shoulder, and a long-wavelength downwarp forming the Wilkes Basin. Minor downwarp of reflectors over the edge of some concave-down features is noted, as in the case of the reflection associated with the base Tarrant Chalk Member. verb [with object] Displace (a rock formation) downwards so as to form a downwarp: the land masses buckled and downwarped the continental shelves... The palaeoplain was downwarped, creating the Great Divide and a new continental shelf on which marine sediments accumulated.
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