downflexing

English

Verb

downflexing

1. present participle and gerund of downflex

Noun

downflexing (plural downflexings)

1. An act of downflexing or an instance where something has been downflexed.
   • 1981, Arthur Newell Strahler, Physical geology, page 453:

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

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

     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.