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Homocline near Lulworth Cove, England Diagram of a homocline Homocline in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. In structural geology, a homocline or homoclinal structure (from old Greek: homo = same, cline = inclination), is a geological structure in which the layers of a sequence of rock strata, either sedimentary or igneous, dip uniformly in a single direction having the same general inclination in ...
Typically, the term is restricted to a ridge created by the differential erosion of outcropping, steeply dipping (greater than 30–40°), homoclinal, and typically sedimentary strata. One side of a hogback (its backslope) consists of the surface (bedding plane) of a steeply dipping rock stratum called a dip slope.
The opposite slope, its frontslope, that forms the front of a homoclinal ridge consists of an escarpment that cuts across the bedding of the strata comprising it. Because of the moderately dipping nature of the strata that forms a homoclinal ridge, a significant shift in horizontal location will take place the landscape is lowered by erosion.
A dip slope is a topographic (geomorphic) surface which slopes in the same direction, and often by the same amount, as the true dip or apparent dip of the underlying strata. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] A dip slope consists of the upper surface of a resistant layer of rock, often called caprock , that is commonly only slightly lowered and reduced in steepness ...
Cuesta – Hill or ridge with a gentle slope on one side and a steep slope on the other; Dissected plateau – Plateaus area that has been severely eroded so that the relief is sharp; Erg – Broad area of desert covered with wind-swept sand; Etchplain – Plain where the bedrock has been subject to considerable subsurface weathering
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