The portion of an anticline which has been removed by denudation is the "aerial arch," dotted in fig.
The observer in passing northwards along the axis of that anticline finds himself getting into progressively higher strata as the fold sinks down.
Hence the anticline noses out to the north and the syncline to the south.
Again, the most convenient site for oil wells is the crest of an anticline or "dome," where an impervious stratum imprisons the gas and oil in a subjacent saturated layer under pressure.
A better view of the Cane Creek anticline can be seen from Anticline Overlook, as shown in figure 31.
The evaporation ponds shown in figures 31 and 71 are in Shafer Basin, a synclinal basin separating the Cane Creek anticline and Shafer dome.
Crest of Cane Creek anticline and La Sal Mountains in right background.
Others believe that removal of the salt and gypsum occurred by plastic flowage toward the Meander anticline (see p.
Colorado River cuts across crest at middle right, above which is Anticline Overlook.
The "closure" of an anticline is the difference between the height of a given stratum at the highest point and at the edges of the structure.
Commonly, however, it is necessary to find some structural feature in the nature of a dome oranticline which suggests proper trapping conditions for an oil pool.
Folded Strata, Coast of England A syncline in the center, with an anticlineon either side] =Folded structures.
In unsymmetrical folds one limb is steeper than the other, as in the anticline in Figure 167.
The Cincinnati anticline was now a peninsula, and the broad gulf which had lain between it and Appalachia was transformed at the beginning of the Pennsylvanian into wide marshy plains, now sinking beneath the sea and now emerging from it.
Yet this special case of paired gaps in the opposite walls of a breached anticline is manifestly a direct sequence of the development of the Juniata headwaters.
As the streams cut down deeper and encountered the Medina anticline near the core of the ridge, they sawed a passage through it; the Cambrian beds were discovered below and a valley was opened on them as the Medina cover wore away.
Salt Valley anticline southwest of the section in figure 8.
Geology of the Salt Valley anticline and adjacent areas, Grand County, Utah: U.
A section across the Salt Valley anticline and the Courthouse syncline in the northwestern part of the park is shown in figure 8, and the axes of these structures are shown in figure 9.
The remarkable jointing of the rocks on the northeast limb of the Salt Valley anticline is shown in figure 12.
Paradox Member beneath the crest of the Salt Valley anticline and only about 2,000 feet beneath the Courthouse syncline.
The first is the great anticline of the Pennine Hills which dominates the northern half of England from the Scottish border to Derby.
England are the two Tertiary basins of London and Hampshire, separated by the dissected anticline of the Weald.
The northern part of the western side of the anticlineis broken off by a great fault in the valley of the Eden, and the scarp thus formed is rendered more abrupt by the presence of a sheet of intrusive basalt.
They are conformably succeeded by the Old Red Sandstone which extends westwards as far as Cowbridge as a deeply eroded anticline largely concealed by Trias and Lias.
Combined surface and sectional views of a plunging anticline (after Willis).
The Upper Greensand is also exposed at Burghclere as an inlier; the rocks are bent into a sharp anticline and the chalk, having been denuded from its crest, the older sandy strata are brought to light.
A much more gentle anticline brings up the chalk through the Tertiary rocks in the neighbourhood of Fareham.
The Mendip system is well shewn in the Mendip Hills, but the remains of a still more important anticline are seen in South Devon and Cornwall, separated from the Mendip Hills by the great syncline of Devon.
The southerly or Harlech anticline forms a part of Merionethshire to the east of Harlech, whilst the northern one is developed around Bangor and Llanberis.
The explanation would appear to be that the anticline is almost a monoclinal curve,--that is to say, one slope is steep, the other not far from horizontal.
As we follow the Sandown anticline westward it gradually dies away, the upheaved area being actually a long oval--what we may call a turtle-back.
Early in our studies we noticed the great curves into which the upheaved strata have been thrown, and that on the northern side of the anticline the strata are in places vertical.
On the south of the anticline the Perna bed slopes down to the sea about 150 yards east of Atherfield Point, and runs out to sea as a reef.
As the Sandown anticline dies out, it is succeeded by another a little further south, the Brook anticline.
The centre of the Sandown anticline runs just north of Sandown, but the various branches of the Yar and Medina flow from well south of this.
The figure shows the structure of the Sandown anticline we have described.
North and south of the great anticline of the Weald of Kent and Sussex are two synclinal troughs known as the London and Hampshire basins.
The strata now dip under the Solent, and rise into another anticline in the Portsdown Hills.
By the action of the agencies of denudation upon the faulted anticline of the Isle of Purbeck, the Wealden beds are brought to light in the vale between Lulworth and Swanage; a similar cause has accounted for their appearance at East Chaldon.
Plan of an anticline (A) and syncline (S), dislocated by a fault.
Faults crossing folded strata cause the outcrops to approach on the upthrow side of a syncline and tend to separate the outcrops of an anticline (figs.
With continued application of compressional forces, Paleozoic and Mesozoic rocks to the east of the Rock Creek-Needles Anticline are folded (Fig.
The Rock Creek-Needles Anticline is developed at the western edge of the Fossil Basin.
From other evidences it has been shown that this anticlinewas heaved up in the early part of the Cainozoic Era, perhaps during the Miocene Period.
Now, this one fact greatly influenced its fate, for an anticline cannot be regarded as a strong or stable arrangement of strata.
In time, this great anticline will be entirely worn away like that of the Weald.
After a hurried breakfast they drove the portable drill rig, instrument truck and shooting truck to the anticline which lay, circled by tall yellow buttes, about three miles from the camp site.
They named Sandy and three others to carry stadia rods and help them make a careful surface survey of the vicinity where the oil anticline was believed to be.
It shows one anticline that may contain oil, but I'll have to do a lot of surface work before I recommend that John spends money on a wildcat well.
Or perhaps the top of the anticline had a crack, or fault, through which the oil seeped to the surface ages ago.
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