geosyncline in English
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.
Use "geosyncline" in a sentence
1. The Alpine orogeny caused extensive folding and faulting of Mesozoic and early Tertiary sediments from the Tethys geosyncline.
2. Beltian Geosyncline, a linear trough in the Earth’s crust in which rocks of Precambrian age (about 4 billion to 542 million years ago) were deposited in the Northern Rocky Mountain region
3. During latest Precambrian time, in northwest Mexico, an about 2,000 m thick sequence of conglomerate, sandy shale and dolomite, containingCollenia, Cryptozoa and other organisms, accumulated on top of the eroded older Precambrian metamorphics and granitic rocks, that formed the northeast flank of the miogeosynclinal part of the ancestral North American Cordilleran Geosyncline, representing a near-shore facies.