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Schist vs Anticline - What's the difference?

schist | anticline |

As nouns the difference between schist and anticline

is that schist is any crystalline rock having a foliated structure and hence admitting of ready division into slabs or slates while anticline is (geology) a fold with strata sloping downwards on each side.

schist

English

(wikipedia schist)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any crystalline rock having a foliated structure and hence admitting of ready division into slabs or slates.
  • * 2012 , Amy Schoeman, , page ii
    • Millions of years ago the mica schists surrounding the old Brandberg West Mine became folded and concertinaed by enormous horizontal pressures.

    Derived terms

    * blueschist * greenschist * schistous * schistocity

    Anagrams

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    anticline

    English

    (wikipedia anticline)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geology) A fold with strata sloping downwards on each side.

    • Coordinate terms

    * syncline

    Holonyms

    * antiform