downflexing

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of downflex

plural downflexings

1. An act of downflexing or an instance where something has been downflexed.

   In certain regions of horizontal platform strata, there occur sharp downflexings of strata in the form of monoclines.

   1981, Arthur Newell Strahler, Physical geology, page 453

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   Thus the "step-like thickening of the crust" mentioned by Sobczak & Stephens (1974) may be coincident with a block fault system at the margin of the Franklinian geosyncline, movements along which caused downflexing and subsidence that controlled trough sedimentation.

   1982, Nares Strait and the drift of Greenland, →ISBN, page 189