How To Use Thrust fault In A Sentence
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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.
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The Delamerian Orogen is a compressional orogen developed by westward vergent folds and thrust faults.
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As a result its brittle crust ruptured and thrust faults (compression) formed distinctive landforms known as lobate scarps.
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The volume of displacement along the NNW - verging master thrust fault is estimated to be about 13.
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The veins extend perpendicularly from the thrust fault across the skarn and pinch out in overlying rhythmically bedded limestone.
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We call the combination of a fault and a fold in a rock an overthrust fault.
Folding and faulting in the Earth's crust
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Shortening is manifested by the development of folds and thrust faults; the horizontal slip is accommodated by strike-slip faults.
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The structural relations of these formations are complicated by extensive thrust faulting.
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Compressional forces typically result in reverse and overthrust faulting.
Mountain
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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.
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A palaeostress analysis was conducted on a population of mesoscale thrust faults from throughout the Neptune Range.
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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
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These forces also created a number of overthrust faults.
Mountain
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The Delamerian Orogen is a compressional orogen developed by westward vergent folds and thrust faults.
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A thrust fault with a hade of 30 degrees, showing cliffs due to harder strata outcropping on the downthrow.
The Elements of Geology
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Haiyuan left lateral active fault and northern edge thrust fault of Qilian moutain compose the major northeastern boundary of present day crustal movement of the Qinghai Tibet block.
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Thrust faults hade to the upthrow; the hanging wall has gone up.
The Elements of Geology
