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n: rock layers folded in the shape of an arch. Anticlines sometimes trap oil and gas. Compare syncline.

n: A configuration of folded and stratified rock layers in the shape of an arch. Often associated with a trap.

a convex-upward formation of rock layers (a fold with the strata sloping down on the sides from a common crest. In association with a sealing rock, an anticline may form a trap for hydrocarbons. Anticlines may be faulted or unfaulted. The majority of the

n: a geologic structure resembling an inverted bowl, i.e., a short anticline that dips or plunges on all sides.

a symmeatrical upfold of the layers of rock in which the beds dip in all directions more or less equally from a common point;any deformation characterized by a circular local uplift.

n: an anticline composed of sedimentary deposits atop a reef or atoll, along whose flanks greater thicknesses of sediments have been deposited and compacted than atop the reef itself. Also called compaction anticline.

n: an anticline formed when the dip of a growth fault approaches the horizontal at depth and deposition is faster on the downthrown side, which tends to roll over" or curl downward.