miogeoclinal

English

Etymology

miogeocline +‎ -al

Adjective

miogeoclinal (not comparable)

1. of or relating to a miogeocline
   • 2000 September 15, Cin-Ty Lee et al., “Osmium Isotopic Evidence for Mesozoic Removal of Lithospheric Mantle Beneath the Sierra Nevada, California”, in Science‎^[1], volume 289, number 5486, →DOI, pages 1912–1916:

     84, 3489 (1973)] showed that the initial 87 Sr/ 86 Sr = 0.706 contour in the Sierran batholith approximates the western limit of Paleozoic miogeoclinal sediments (Fig. 1 ).