Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

miogeocline

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mio-geo-cline
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An area of sedimentation that occurs along the passive margin of a continent.

Etymology

Coined in 1966 by Dietz and Holden from the miogeosyncline concept of the outdated geosynclinal theory.

Inflected Forms

miogeoclines (plural)

Derived Forms

miogeoclinal

Questions

What does miogeocline mean?: An area of sedimentation that occurs along the passive margin of a continent.
Where does miogeocline come from?: Coined in 1966 by Dietz and Holden from the miogeosyncline concept of the outdated geosynclinal theory.

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