monocline
monocline — 名詞
1. a fold in the earth's crust where all the rock layers slant the same way at roug
單斜層
岩層朝單一方向傾斜的褶皺
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
The Sand Ridge monocline in southern Utah stretches for nearly a hundred miles.
猶他州南部的沙脊單斜層綿延將近一百英里。
place name + monocline as geographic feature
Dr. Chen showed her students the monocline where every rock layer dipped eastward.
陳博士向學生展示那處單斜層，所有岩層都向東傾斜。
Hikers in the canyon could see a sharp monocline cutting across the cliff face.
峽谷中的健行者可以看到一道明顯的單斜層橫切過崖面。
The road builders had to cut through a thick monocline of sandstone and shale.
築路工人不得不鑿穿一層由砂岩和頁岩構成的厚實單斜層。
Rashid pointed out the monocline sloping one way, then the anticline folding two ways.
Rashid 指出單向傾斜的單斜層，然後指向兩側彎曲的背斜。
- monoclinal fold
more formal geological term; same meaning but used mainly in academic papers