obsequent

A Dictionary of Earth Sciences | 1999 | 263 words | Copyright

obsequent Applied to a land-form whose orientation is opposite to that which may have been expected. For example, an obsequent stream flows against the dip of underlying strata; and an obsequent fault-line scarp faces the opposite way to the original fault scarp.

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