downflexing
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]downflexing
- present participle and gerund of downflex
Noun
[edit]downflexing (plural downflexings)
- An act of downflexing or an instance where something has been downflexed.
- 1981, Arthur Newell Strahler, Physical geology, page 453:
- In certain regions of horizontal platform strata, there occur sharp downflexings of strata in the form of monoclines.
- 1982, Nares Strait and the drift of Greenland, →ISBN, page 189:
- Thus the "step-like thickening of the crust" mentioned by Sobczak & Stephens (1974) may be coincident with a block fault system at the margin of the Franklinian geosyncline, movements along which caused downflexing and subsidence that controlled trough sedimentation.