Associations to the word «Monocline»

Wiktionary

MONOCLINE, noun. (geology) A unidirectional dip in strata that is not a part of an anticline or syncline
MONOCLINE, noun. (geology) A single flexure in otherwise flat-lying strata

Dictionary definition

MONOCLINE, noun. A geological formation in which all strata are inclined in the same direction.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope