isoclinal's Usage Examples:

When a series of adjacent isoclinal overfolds has passed into a series of thrusts (see Fault), the so-called "imbricated" structure (Fr.

3), sometimes styled an "open anticline"; (2) the limbs may be parallel in "closed" folds (commonly known as isoclinal folding); (3) the limbs may make an open angle or widen out towards the crest (fig.

It is formed almost entirely of a succession of sandstones and shales of Cretaceous and Tertiary age - the so-called Carpathian Sandstone - and these are thrown into a series of isoclinal folds dipping constantly to the south.

If the bedding be traced, either in the slates or in the other rocks which accompany them, flexures will be frequently observed (the folding often being of an isoclinal type), while reversed faulting, or thrusting, is usually also conspicuous.

Synonyms:

isoclinic line, isarithm, isogram, isopleth,

Antonyms:

inequality, different, disagree, differ, inadequate,