NOUN
- a geological fault in which the upper side appears to have been pushed upward by compression
How To Use overthrust fault In A Sentence
- These forces also created a number of overthrust faults. Mountain
- Hubbert also explained the puzzling displacement of enormous blocks of material, known to geologists as overthrust faults, as a consequence of fluid pressure between such blocks and underlying materials. Hubbert, Marion King
- Compressional forces typically result in reverse and overthrust faulting. Mountain
- We call the combination of a fault and a fold in a rock an overthrust fault. Folding and faulting in the Earth's crust
