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A structure of bedded rocks in which the beds on both sides ofan axis or axial plane dip away from the axis; an anticlinal.
an upward, curved fold in the layers of rock in the earths surface
A ridge-shaped fold of stratified rock in which the strata slope downward from the crest.
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