anticlinorium Geol.
(ˌæntɪklɪˈnɔərɪəm)
[mod.L., f. as anticlinal + -orium.]
1. (See quot.)
| 1874 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. (ed. 2) IV. 752 An upward bend of the crust, or geanticlinal, is of itself an elevation; and such an elevation is an anticlinorium. |
2. (See quot. 1893.) (The only current sense.)
| 1893 13th Ann. Rep. U.S. Geol. Surv. ii. 220 It often happens that the result of the combination of many anticlines and synclines is to form a complex structure, which, regarded as a whole, is either synclinal or anticlinal. The former is called a synclinorium, the latter an anticlinorium. 1920 J. Geikie Struct. & Field Geol. (ed. 4) ix. 142 When a broad zone has bulged up under lateral pressure..we may have one great arch composed of numerous subordinate wrinkles or minor folds and flexures. A complex arch of this kind is termed an Anticlinorium. 1938 Geogr. Jrnl. XCI. 281 The whole San Carlos range is an arcuate anticlinorium trending east—west with convexity to the south. |
Hence ˌanticliˈnorial a., of or pertaining to an anticlinorium.
| 1940 Geogr. Jrnl. XCV. 332 On the west Burma is separated from India by a complex anticlinorial fold of Alpine-Himalayan age. |