monocline
monocline — noun
1. a fold in the earth's crust where all the rock layers slant the same way at roug
1.名詞C2
釋義
a fold in the earth's crust where all the rock layers slant the same way at roughly the same steepness, like a carpet draped over a single step rather than a hill
例句
The Sand Ridge monocline in southern Utah stretches for nearly a hundred miles.
place name + monocline as geographic feature
Dr. Chen showed her students the monocline where every rock layer dipped eastward.
Hikers in the canyon could see a sharp monocline cutting across the cliff face.
The road builders had to cut through a thick monocline of sandstone and shale.
Rashid pointed out the monocline sloping one way, then the anticline folding two ways.
同義詞
- monoclinal fold
more formal geological term; same meaning but used mainly in academic papers
常見錯誤
❌The rock has a monocline.
✅The rock formation shows a monocline.
💡a monocline is a large-scale fold structure in rock layers, not a property of a single stone.