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7.2.5 Syncline

A syncline is a downward fold or trough. The limbs dip toward the central axis. The youngest rocks are in the center of the fold with successively older rocks farther out.


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Symmetrical Folds
Symmetrical Folds
Press, F. and R. Siever.
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W. H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco, 1982.
Minor syniclinal fold on limb of anticline. Stony Squaw Mt.,Banff Alberta.  Symmetrical Folds 

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