anticlinal in a sentence
Examples
- The Burgan field's structure is an anticlinal dome having an elliptical shape and transected by numerous radial faults.
- They are composed of three major anticlinal structures, each with a core of older Devonian sandstone and Silurian volcanic rocks.
- Mill Creek Mountain, a narrow anticlinal mountain ridge, rises westward from the South Branch Potomac River across from Valley View.
- Petroleum has long been produced from anticlinal traps of the Muddy Sandstone ( Cretaceous ) at North McCallum and South McCallum oil fields.
- The range is an anticlinal structure with a sharp southern boundary defined by the Morales Thrust Fault, along which runs the Cuyama River.
- The Saxman mine was located along the axis of the anticlinal Boswell Dome and the Quecreek Mine on the western flank of the anticline.
- The main portion of the Long Beach field is an anticlinal structure paralleling the fault zone, with Signal Hill being its surface expression.
- As far north as the gorge of the anticlinal range within the body of the mountain system with flanking strata rising well on the slopes.
- Subsurface mapping of the field demonstrated that the producing north-south trending anticlinal structure is bounded on the east by large normal Pennsylvanian sediments.
- The Uinta range is a broad anticlinal structure in northeast Utah with east-west trend corresponding to the east-west Rattlesnake Mountains mentioned earlier.