The Alderbury-Mottisfont Syncline is an east–west trending fold in the Cretaceous chalk of Hampshire . It lies to the north of the Dean Hill Anticline and south of Salisbury Plain .
3-560: The syncline runs west about 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) from the River Test near Mottisfont to the Avon at Alderbury , south-east of Salisbury . The centre of the syncline is occupied by palaeogene rocks of the Reading Formation , London Clay and Wittering Formation. To the north and south the chalk emerges. At the western end to the south-east of Salisbury the structure is cut by
6-407: Is a large syncline with superimposed smaller folds. Synclines are typically a downward fold ( synform ), termed a synformal syncline (i.e. a trough), but synclines that point upwards can be found when strata have been overturned and folded (an antiformal syncline). On a geologic map, synclines are recognized as a sequence of rock layers , with the youngest at the fold's center or hinge and with
9-531: The Mere Fault. List of geological folds in Great Britain This article about a regional geological feature is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Syncline In structural geology , a syncline is a fold with younger layers closer to the center of the structure, whereas an anticline is the inverse of a syncline. A synclinorium (plural synclinoriums or synclinoria )
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