What do you call the folded layers of rock where geologists look for oil?

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answered Jan 6 by TereseMandal (1.7k points)

anticlines

Geologists look for oil in folded layers of rock called anticlines. Oil moves through permeable rock and is trapped by the impermeable cap rock.

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