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Definition of Thrust fault
1. Noun. A geological fault in which the upper side appears to have been pushed upward by compression.
Definition of Thrust fault
1. Noun. (geology) A type of fault, with movement of the Earth's crust, in which a lower stratigraphic layer is pushed up and over a younger one as a result of compression forces. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Thrust Fault
Literary usage of Thrust fault
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to Geology by William Berryman Scott (1897)
"... the normal strike faults, but in those of very large displacement, the beds
which are brought into close juxtaposition KlG. no, — Gri'at thrust fault, ..."
2. Geology, Physical and Historical by Herdman Fitzgerald Cleland (1916)
"A great thrust fault (Bannock overthrust)i extends approximately 270 miles ...
In Massachusetts,2 a thrust fault has been described in which the strata have ..."
3. Geology, Physical and Historical by Herdman Fitzgerald Cleland (1916)
"A great thrust fault (Bannock overthrust)l extends approximately 270 miles ...
In Massachusetts,ja thrust fault has been described in which the strata have ..."
4. Structural Geology by Charles Kenneth Leith (1913)
"Folded thrust fault planes are described and figured by Keith in the Roan Mountain
folio of the southern Appalachians l (Figs. 30, 31 and 32), ..."
5. Structural Geology by Charles Kenneth Leith (1913)
"Folded thrust fault planes are described and figured by Keith in the Roan Mountain
folio of the southern Appalachians 1 (Figs. 30, 31 and 32), ..."
6. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"Where the hanging-wall side is thrust up over the foot-wall side, the fault is
said to be a reversed or thrust fault. In a gravity fault the dip of the ..."
7. This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics by W. Jacquelyne Kious, Robert I. Tilling (1996)
"It instead occurred along the Santa Monica Mountains thrust fault, one of several
... Movement along a blind thrust fault does not break the ground surface, ..."
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