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11.1 What do deformed rocks look like?
- Describing folded rocks
- Limbs: the two dipping sides of a fold
- Hinge line: where the dipping limbs join
- Plunging fold: when the hinge line plunges downward into the ground
- Anticline: a folded structure that arches upward in the center (limbs dip away from hinge line)
- Syncline: a folded structure that arches down in the center (limbs dip in towards hinge line)