432 J. D. Dana—Results of the Earth's Contraction. 
geosynclinal make it desirable that they should have a distine- 
tive name; and I therefore propose to call a mountain range 
of this kind a synelinorium, from synclinal and the Greek opos, 
mountain. 
geosynclinal movements, indeed a range of crust that comes 
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n | Cretaceous and Tertiary areas; } 
