Garden Dictionary Word: swell

swell

A huge natural dome structure where movement of the earth's crust has raised stratigraphic layers in mounds rather than breaking them with a fault. Erosion exposes the oldest layers in the middle with subsequent layers surrounding it in concentric circles.

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