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they are referred to as pitching anticlines and pitching 

 synclines. There are a variety of anticlines. They are 

 symmetrical, asymmetrical, overturned, recumbent, fan- 

 shaped etc. A symmetrical anticline has both arms or 

 limbs dipping at the same angle ; in an asymmetrical anti- 



A B 



D 



Figure 8 Folds. A Symmetrical anticline, o, and syncline, s. 

 B Monocline. C Asymmetrical anticline. D Overturned anti- 

 clines. E Recumbent anticline. F Fan folds. 



cline one limb has a steeper dip. In strongly folded areas 

 folding is sometimes so strongly developed that one limb 

 lies under the other and the beds are in a reversed order 

 forming an overturned anticline. When this overturning 

 is continued so far that the limbs lie in a practically hori- 



