NOUN
- a geological fault in which the upper side appears to have been pushed upward by compression
How To Use reverse fault In A Sentence
- It is not known whether the thrusts and reverse faults represent reactivated extensional basement structures or formed entirely during basin inversion.
- In the north of the area towards the Main Zagros Reverse Fault, thrusts are dominant.
- These extensional faults were reactivated as reverse faults during Neogene compression associated with subduction beneath the North Island.
- It is not known whether the thrusts and reverse faults represent reactivated extensional basement structures or formed entirely during basin inversion.
- The basin experienced east-west folding and reverse faulting soon after deposition ended.
- Reverse faults develop when compressional forces exist (Figure 10). Folding and faulting in the Earth's crust
- It is concluded that this strike-slip fault is in tensoshear property and should be lagging products associated with reverse fault of NE trend.
- The fault is interpreted as a north-directed reverse fault with a possible minor left-lateral strike-slip component.
- At the other extreme, reverse faulting could cause the pattern of exhumation and basin inversion.
- Previous work has demonstrated the presence of important, post-glacial reverse faults in Norway.