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“geosyncline”
An extensive, basin-shaped, mobile downward subsidence of the Earth's crust: A geosyncline is caused by the deposition of a considerable thicknesses of sedimentary and volcanic rocks over millions of years.
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geo-, ge- +
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syn-, sy-, sym-, syl-, sys-
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