Anticlines and synclines are commonly seen rock formations ... An anticline is a convex fold in which the rock typically slopes upward. The oldest of rocks in an anticline are at its core.

Rocks that have been bent are what geologists call folded. Examples of a fold is a syncline and an anticline. Rocks that have been shifted upward, downward or against each other is known as a ...

but the strata are folded into a subsidiary syncline (the Gwesyn syncline) and anticline (the Rhiwnant anticline), with their axes parallel to that of the main structure; that is, from south-west ...

The former Bear Valley Strip Mine in Pennsylvania is the site of the “Whaleback anticline,” named because the 30-foot-tall hump of bedrock looks like a whale. Decades of coal mining exposed ...