palinspastically

adverb

In a palinspastic fashion.

Scrabble 25

Meanings

adverbpalinspastically (comparative more palinspastically, superlative most palinspastically)

comparative more palinspastically · superlative most palinspastically

  1. geographyIn a palinspastic fashion.

    If reconstructed palinspastically for 300 km of right lateral movement on the San Andreas fault, these strata would lie west to northwest of Paleozoic to Lower Mesozoic strata in Sonora.

    2005, Thomas Howard Anderson, The Mojave-Sonora Megashear Hypothesis, page 211

Origin

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