Miogeocline Definition

noun

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

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Singular:
miogeocline
Plural:
miogeoclines

Origin of Miogeocline

  • Coined in 1966 by Dietz and Holden from the miogeosyncline concept of the outdated geosynclinal theory.

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