Section in a Region of Folded Rocks] Foldings of the Crust The oscillations which we have just described leave the strata not far from their original horizontal attitude.
We may mention here some of the conditions which have commonly been antecedent to great foldings of the crust.
A hand specimen of slate, or even a particle under the microscope, may show plications similar in form and origin to the foldings which have produced ranges of mountains.
My heart yearns to be admitted once more into the foldings of his--a hundred times have I been tempted to throw myself into his arms, implore his forgiveness, and entreat him to commence a new life of confidence and love.
The serpent is watching at your heel, but do you watch his head: give him no admittance into your mind: from the least entrance he will draw in after him the foldings of his whole body.
The principal means always to entertain in our souls this saving fear, is to have God always before our eyes, who is everywhere present, hears and sees all things, and penetrates the most secret foldings of our hearts.
A fault in Virginia, believed to imply a displacement of several thousand feet, has been traced for more than eighty miles in the same direction as the foldings of the Appalachian chain.
Who hath seen the foldings and plies, and the heights and depths of that glory which is in Him, and kept for us?
There are curtains to be drawn by in Christ, that we never saw, and new foldings of love in Him.
The same remarks apply in the case of foldings or ridges.
As a general rule, plain spaces are best adapted for ornamentation, although in the rich brocades of the fine periods the foldings of the material give an added richness and variety to the patterning.
Beds of solid rock cannot be suddenly bent into great folds without breaking, and the abruptness of some of the folds may be seen from our figure, copied from Rogers (page 162), of some of the foldings of the Appalachian Mountains.
We have foldings of the earth's crust, causing volcanic action and producing limited and shallow sea-basins, and at the same time causing the evolution of alkaline and metalliferous springs.
She stirred with opulent foldings of velvet, shaking out vague musky odors; a brooch in the fine lace plaits over her high maternal bosom gave out a dull white gleam of old brilliants.
The whole area has been subjected to forces which have produced foldingsand flexures in the Carboniferous strata after deposition.
In the troughs of the foldings thus formed the coal-measures rest, those portions which had been thrown up as anticlines having suffered loss by denudation.
On the west of the chain of mountains the foldings become gentler, and the coal assumes an almost horizontal position.
On the contrary, that of Chardin represents naturally the foldings of the skin and feet, but in other respects does not resemble the animal.
His neck was very short, the skin forming on this part two large foldings which surround him.
Usually, although the volume of foldings increases, they are kept away from it, so as to leave the impression of the shield standing out and quite clear.
I have noticed of the foldings coming from behind the shield, and the same may be seen in a grant of 1575, printed in Sylvanus Morgan's Sphere of Gentry, lib.
We notice that these are conventional exaggerations of the less pronounced circular foldings and turnings seen so early as 1677 in some of Hollar's engravings in Sandford's Genealogical History.
Fair are the silent foldings of his robes, Falling with saintly calmness to his feet; And when he walks, each floweret to his will With living pulse of sweet accord doth beat.
These great movements have included notable foldings of strata, uplifts without folding, faulting, and igneous activity, the whole effect having been to greatly increase the general altitude and ruggedness of the continent.
These last two features consist of certain cavities and furrows in the posterior lobes, which are caused by the foldings of the brain, and are only visible when it is dissected.
At these words, the jewelled hand reappeared outside the foldings of the velvet--this time with its palm held upward.
The foldings and plications do not, in a word, produce any corresponding undulations of the surface.
In the Jura the mountains form a series of long parallel ridges separated by intervening hollows; and the form or shape of the ground coincides in a striking manner with the foldings of the strata.
Such great foldings or redoublings of strata are most probably originated during subsidence of a portion of the earth's crust.
It seems most probable that the larger contortions and foldings which are visible in all true mountain-chains, owe their origin to the sinking down of the earth's crust upon the cooling and contracting nucleus.
Many a stitch was undone at Seville, and many a flounce torn off, by the same pretty hand that, but a few days before, had distributed its foldings with a conscious feeling of its future airiness and light flutterings.
Beyond the whitened foldings of the mountains a deep red glow was burning in the west, and she wanted to hold out her hands to it for warmth.
Over the mountains the clouds tossed in broken masses, and loose streamers of vapour drifted down into the lower foldings of the hills.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foldings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
