SYNCLINAL • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Synclinal

... character; the upraising of the mountains involving intensified mechanical denudation over the elevated area and in this way an accelerated transport of detritus to the sea; the formation of fresh deposits; renewed synclinal sinking of the sea floor, and, finally, the upheaval of a younger mountain range. This extraordinary sequence of events has been determined by the events of detrital denudation acting along with certain general conditions which have all ...

— The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays • J. (John) Joly

... great synclinal, adjoining the Valley of Ossau, is the Valley of Lavedan, and at its head in the mountains lies Cauterets, our next point of attack. The notch of the road in each intervening ridge is called a col, that which is in the ridge that now bars us from Cauterets being the ...

— A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees • Edwin Asa Dix