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

 

Synclines tend to have short noses because the resistant bed only surfaces along the cut edge of the bed. The rest of the unit is buried below less resistant beds above.

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