downflex

To force downward without breaking.

Second, the unusually thick (2 to 5 km, Berry and Barr, 1971; Hall, 1973; Grantz et al., 1979) sediment cover in Canada Basin may serve to downflex the underlying oceanic crust and produce a greater than normal state of stress across the adjacent margin which is presently coupled to the seafloor basement.

Some of these sediments may act as locally uncompensated loads that generate the strong observed gravity highs, downflex the surrounding lithosphere to produce the broad flanking gravity lows, and contribute to the stress regime responsible for present offshore seismicity.

To bend or stretch downward.

The continent edge would downflex as the ocean floor is loaded by a continental-rise prism.

As along the eastern United States, continental shelves commonly acquire a prism of sediments as the continental margin downflexes.

Something that has been forced to curve downward.

The southern end of the Rockies plunges gradually along its sharp frontal downflex and passes into the Anton Chico monocline.

The axis of a topographic trench of Java-Sumatra type is thus displaced far seaward, about 200 km, from the position of the fundamental downflex in the subducting oceanic plate.

Something that can bend in a downward direction.

Dinosaurs, as well as growing taller, developed a more pronounced downflex to lower their heads closer to the ground for better cropping techniques.

Showing flexibility in a downward direction.

There is no downward flexibility in expenditure and credit levels. But outputs and supplies are downflex.

If the real wage rate is not downflex, the pace of adoption of technical change depends upon the elasticity in the savings supply schedule.