Basculation
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Basculation is a noun meaning (medicine, archaic) The replacement of a retroverted uterus by swinging it into its place.
Meaning
(medicine, archaic) The replacement of a retroverted uterus by swinging it into its place.
More Meanings
- (geology) The tilting of a geological layer.
Example Sentences
This elongated distribution is unlikely to have been produced by any tectonic cause, either continental drift or local basculations.
This twofold movement upon the centre, - this basculation, - has succeeded in cases where the elevation, singly, has been unsuccessful.
And during the Middle and Upper Carboniferous the basculation of the palaeozoic deposits was produced forming nowadays a monoclinal system in the northern border of the Tinduf depression […]
Flexural basculation towards the south, in combination with the main sediment source being in the Betic cordillera, determined an axial (along-strike) fluvial drainage running along the northern boundary of the sedimentary basin […]
Word Forms
- basculations
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