updomingn.
Geology.
The upward expansion of a rock mass into a dome shape.
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1964 Bull. Vermont Geol. Surv. No. 23. 7 Updoming was the deforming mechanism of the anticlinorium.
1977 A. Hallam Planet Earth 78/3 The heating of the rocks beneath the rift zone causes expansion, and this accounts..for the updoming.
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