What is the difference between a Syncline and an Anticline?

Answer 1

A monocline, or monoform, is a fold in rock strata with a zone of steeper dig on a horizontal or gently-dipping sequence, like a step. An anticline is a fold that is convex up, which the oldest beds are at its core.

Answer 2

Given a set of flat lying sediments that are to start with right way up (ie the youngest layers are on top of older layers)

Then, when you fold them, you get:

A Syncline is a fold that is a "V" shape with the apex of the fold pointing towards the middle of the Earth.

OR - put more precisely for the general case; A fold where the youngest rocks form the core of the fold.

An Anticline is a fold that is an "A" shape (without the cross bar) with the apex point towards the sky.

OR - put more precisely for the general case; A fold where the oldest rocks form the core of the fold.

The general case is required because extreme folding can invert the rock sequence and you therefore need a definition that deals with this. There are also more precise descriptions of "synforms" and "antiforms" which deal with these situations and with situations where rocks have been folded more than once.

Answer 3

A syncline is a fold with younger layers closer to the center of the structure whereas an anticline has older layers closer to the center. A syncline vaguely resembles a smile(you would smile if you were committing a sin[syn]) and an anticline is the opposite, vaguely like an "A"

Answer 4

when you divide this fold into two part by 2 axis: vertical and horizontal .
if:
one of it less than 90 degree and remain less than 90. that fold is anticline or syncline .
one of it less than 90 degree and remain less than 180 d and more and equal 90 degree, that fold is monocline.

Answer 5

A syncline is a downward fold in rock layers, creating a U shape, with the youngest rock layers in the center. An anticline is an upward fold in rock layers, creating an A shape, with the oldest rock layers in the center.

Answer 6

the difference between anticlines and synclines is that anticlines tilt away from the fold axis and the syncline tilts towards it.

Answer 7

An anticline refers to a fold that arches upward to form a ridge. A syncline, meanwhile, refers to a fold that arches downward to form a trough.