Plunging Anticline
(maps taken from Bob Newton's Smith College Geomorphology web site: www.science.smith.edu/geology/geomorph/Structure.html)

 

Plunging anticlines tend to have long, smooth noses (shorter for more steeply plunging folds) because the resistant bed surfaces along the exposed hinge of the fold (i.e., it is the dip slope at the nose).

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