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Besides such intense plication, extensive rupturing of the crust has taken place in the same range of mountains.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various

One of these lines girdles the whole globe, while others lie in certain directions more or less coincident with lines of flexure, plication or faulting.

From Volcanoes: Past and Present by Hull, Edward

Take, for example, the proofs of gigantic plication, fracture and displacement within the terrestrial crust.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various

Movements of the earth's crust, plication of strata, origin of mountains, earthquakes, etc.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 66, April, 1863 by Various

Multiplicate: with many longitudinal folds or lines of plication.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.