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Present along the surface exposures of the anticline are rocks dating from Upper Cretaceous to Paleocene age.
From the maps presented in Figure 2, it is apparent that the well tested the crest of an anticline that formed during the Cenozoic.
This mechanical failure results in a topographic valley along the crest of the anticline.
In its hanging wall, however, a drag fold syncline and a rollover anticline developed.
The result is a monoclinal rollover anticline, its tightness increasing progressively with continued fault displacement.
This point of geological interest allows us to observe what an anticline structure involves in an educational way.
The imbricated zone becomes progressively narrower towards the east and terminates somewhere east of the Irchel anticline.
East of the Sakami fault and in continuity with the arenites, an anticline and a syncline are recognized, in an ESE direction.
In this locality, the top 20 m of the Asmari Limestone exhibits palaeo-weathering along joints suggesting subaerial exposure of the Asmari near the crest of an anticline.
The field evidence includes the presence of several longitudinal extensional folds such as a rollover anticline and drag folds that are related to normal faults in the area.
Continued displacement along the thrust will result in the increasing separation of the ramp anticline from the ramp above which it originally formed.
The zone on the whole represents a huge anticline, or series of stratified arches.
An aeromatic survey indicated some structures, including a 60 km long anticline which potentially holds hydrocarbon reserves.
The discovery was made in 1972 on a broad, low amplitude anticline after drilling into Jurassic sandstones near their subcrop edge.
In all three zones, mineralization is structurally controlled along the limbs of a tightly folded anticline within metasedimentary rocks.
The location chosen lies 13 km W along strike from the Born-Engelberg anticline situated at the southern foot of the E Jura Mountains.
Another notable anticline is the Tierra Amarilla anticline in San Ysidro, New Mexico.
In North Africa the central basin of Algeria is the location of the Hassi R'Mel gas and condensate field, discovered in 1956 in a large anticline.
An anticline that has been more deeply eroded in the center is called a breached or scalped anticline.
The closure of an anticline is the vertical distance between its highest point and the spill plane, the level at which the petroleum can escape if the trap is filled beyond capacity.
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There each mountain-ridge corresponds to an anticline, and each valley to a syncline, or trough-shaped arrangement of strata.
Now, this one fact greatly influenced its fate, for an anticline cannot be regarded as a strong or stable arrangement of strata.
And then let us pass to the other side of the anticline, and walk on the shore to Shanklin.
An arch of strata like this, such as the one we are looking at, is called an anticline.
Hence the anticline noses out to the north and the syncline to the south.
In other cases the anticline may be of nearly equidimensional dome form.
First, you get a low arch, or anticline, like that of the Weald.
The figure shows the structure of the Sandown anticline we have described.
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