NOUN
- a geological fault in which the upper side appears to have been pushed upward by compression
How To Use thrust fault In A Sentence
- These elongate anticlinal domes have gentle to moderate dips on their flanks, and are cut by several thrust faults that may be linked to a deeper system.
- The Delamerian Orogen is a compressional orogen developed by westward vergent folds and thrust faults.
- As a result its brittle crust ruptured and thrust faults (compression) formed distinctive landforms known as lobate scarps. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
- The volume of displacement along the NNW - verging master thrust fault is estimated to be about 13.
- The veins extend perpendicularly from the thrust fault across the skarn and pinch out in overlying rhythmically bedded limestone.
- We call the combination of a fault and a fold in a rock an overthrust fault. Folding and faulting in the Earth's crust
- Shortening is manifested by the development of folds and thrust faults; the horizontal slip is accommodated by strike-slip faults.
- The structural relations of these formations are complicated by extensive thrust faulting.
- Compressional forces typically result in reverse and overthrust faulting. Mountain
- This zone forms a narrow band that trends from Loch Eriboll south to the Isle of Skye, and is bounded on the east by the Moine thrust fault.
