How To Use Upthrow In A Sentence
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A fault of recent date may be marked at surface by a scarp, because the face of the upthrown block has not yet been worn to the level of the downthrow side.
The Elements of Geology
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This is termed the upthrow of the fault, as at B; and the downthrow, as at A.
Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles
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Thrust faults hade to the upthrow; the hanging wall has gone up.
The Elements of Geology
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By way of contrast, regions on a fault's upthrown side have less load and so experience uplift.
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The upthrow comes swiftly on the moment of impact.
“The Man-o’-War’s ’Er ’Usband”
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In Figure 184 the right side has gone down relatively to the left; the right is the side of the downthrow, while the left is the side of the upthrow.
The Elements of Geology
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As we can easily see, in an earthquake jar traveling from the opposite end of the earth, there should be no insurmountable difficulty in recognizing the jar, which is a direct upthrow from one which would tilt it to the right or left.
Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86
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In Figure 184 the right side has gone down relatively to the left; the right is the side of the downthrow, while the left is the side of the upthrow.
The Elements of Geology
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The words came in hoarse, croaked, suppressed accents, with a separation of the hands, and an upthrow of the head and projecting cars which had such a comical look of being crushed beneath the weight of the battened-down cap.
Through Russia
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After the upthrown block has been worn down to this level, differential erosion produces fault scarps wherever weak rocks and resistant rocks are brought in contact along the fault plane; and the harder rocks, whether on the upthrow or the downthrow side, emerge in a line of cliffs.
The Elements of Geology
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This is termed the upthrow of the fault, as at B; and the downthrow, as at A.
Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles
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The other side of the semicircle was occupied by the upthrow of a low rise blocking off an horizon at its nearest point but a few hundred yards away.
The Land of Footprints
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This line was acquired over the upthrown block of the mapped Christchurch Fault.
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They are often seen together with features called ‘horsts’, which are upthrown blocks lying between two steep-angled fault blocks.
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For instance, de Beaumont suggested that the Pyrenees had been uplifted in a single sudden upthrow (en un seul jet) and that this elevation had occurred at the same time as that of the Alps. Von Buch and de Beaumont suggested that in the geological past there had occurred events on such an enormous scale as to be catastrophic in nature and without counterpart in the modern expe - rience of man.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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The exploration geologist or geophysicist searching for these resources would be able to estimate that greater reserves would be preserved on the downthrow side of the fault, in contrast to its upthrow side.
