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Meaning of SYNCLINORIUM

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Syn`cli*no"ri*um\, n.; pl. {Synclinoria}. [NL.,
fr. Gr. ? to lay together + ? mountain.] (Geol.)
A mountain range owing its origin to the progress of a
geosynclinal, and ending in a catastrophe of displacement and
upturning. --Dana.
 
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