basculation

English

Etymology 1

bascule +‎ -ation

Noun

basculation (uncountable)

1. (medicine, archaic) The replacement of a retroverted uterus by swinging it into its place.
   • 1834, Gillain Boivin, A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Uterus and Its Appendages:

     This twofold movement upon the centre, - this basculation, - has succeeded in cases where the elevation, singly, has been unsuccessful.

Etymology 2

Spanish basculación

Noun

basculation (plural basculations)

1. (geology) The tilting of a geological layer.
   • 1959, Notes on the Geological Literature of Spanish Sahara:

     And during the Middle and Upper Carboniferous the basculation of the palaeozoic deposits was produced forming nowadays a monoclinal system in the northern border of the Tinduf depression […]

   • 2006, Mabel Mena, “Paleomagnetism, rock-magnetism and geochemical aspects of early Cretaceous basalts of the Paraná Magmatic Province, Misiones, Argentina”, in Earth, Planets and Space, volume 58, page 1283:

     This elongated distribution is unlikely to have been produced by any tectonic cause, either continental drift or local basculations.

   • 2019 September, G Jiménez-Moreno, “Early Pliocene climatic optimum, cooling and early glaciation deduced by terrestrial and marine environmental changes in SW Spain”, in Global and Planetary Change, volume 180, page 89:

     Flexural basculation towards the south, in combination with the main sediment source being in the Betic cordillera, determined an axial (along-strike) fluvial drainage running along the northern boundary of the sedimentary basin […]