vergent

[Lat. vergens, pr. par. of ver go = to bend, to incline.] *1. Ord. Drawing to a close. 2. Geol .: Declining; the name given to a series of Appal a chi an strata, equivalent to the Chelmung group of New York, and of the age of the Middle Devonian rocks of of England. These strata are nearly 5.000 feet thick in Pennsylvania. ( Profe or H. D. Rogers: Geology of Pennsylvania .)