monocline

Updated: May 25, 2025

Such a single flexure is a MONOCLINE. DEGREES OF FOLDING. Folds vary in degree from broad, low swells, which can hardly be detected, to the most highly contorted and complicated structures. In SYMMETRIC folds the dips of the rocks on each side the axis of the fold are equal. In OVERTURNED folds one limb is inclined beyond the perpendicular.

William Harmon Norton - The Elements of Geology

Here we have the Carboniferous strata dipping gently to the southeast, like an ordinary low monocline, under Cambrian or Lower Silurian, one of these so-called faults having a reported length of 375 miles, while in another instance the upper strata are said to have been pushed about eleven miles in the direction of the "thrust."

George McCready Price - Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation