basculation
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The tilting of a geological layer.
Example Sentences
- "This twofold movement upon the centre, - this basculation, - has succeeded in cases where the elevation, singly, has been unsuccessful."
- "And during the Middle and Upper Carboniferous the basculation of the palaeozoic deposits was produced forming nowadays a monoclinal system in the northern border of the Tinduf depression […]"
- "This elongated distribution is unlikely to have been produced by any tectonic cause, either continental drift or local basculations."
- "Flexural basculation towards the south, in combination with the main sediment source being in the Betic cordillera, determined an axial (along-strike) fluvial drainage running along the northern boundary of the sedimentary basin […]"
Etymology
From bascule + -ation.