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Ocean vs Geosyncline - What's the difference?

ocean | geosyncline |

As nouns the difference between ocean and geosyncline

is that ocean is ocean while geosyncline is (geology) a large, linear depression in the earth's crust in which sediment accumulates.

ocean

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (countable) One of the five large bodies of water separating the continents.
  • (uncountable) Water belonging to an ocean.
    • The island is surrounded by ocean
  • (figuratively) An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits.
    • the boundless ocean of eternity
    an ocean of affairs

    Synonyms

    * (large body of water) the ogin (qualifier)

    Derived terms

    * a drop in the ocean * Oceania * oceanic * oceanography * ocean tramp * Oceanus

    See also

    * sea

    Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words ----

    geosyncline

    English

    (wikipedia geosyncline)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geology) A large, linear depression in the Earth's crust in which sediment accumulates.
  • *2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 173:
  • *:Forty years ago the crumpled and complex Mobile Belt of Newfoundland would have been considered a typical result of a deformed geosyncline .

    • Derived terms

    * eugeosyncline * miogeosyncline * miogeocline * orthogeosyncline