geostatics (jeostatiks)

[Pl. of geostatic: see- ics.] The statics of rigid bodies. geosynclinal (jē"ō-sin-klīnal), n. [ The making of the Alleghany range was carried forward through a long-continued subsidence-a geosynclinal not a true synelinal, since the rocks of the bending crust may have had in them many true or simple synclinals as well as anticlinals. J. D. Dana , Amer. Jour. Sci., 3d ser., V. 430. geotectonic (jē"ō-tek-ton'ik), a. [ γῆ , the earth, + τέκτων, a builder.] Relating to the structure or the arrangement of the materials composing the crust of the earth. It is only po ible, for the present, to deduce special geotectonic conditions under which natural gas has so far been exploited. Science , VI. 184. Geotectonic geology. Same as structural geology (which see, under structural ).