thrust fault

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noun Geology.

a low-angle reverse fault produced in rocks subjected to thrust.

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Origin of thrust fault

First recorded in 1900–05

Words nearby thrust fault

thrush, thrust, thrust augmentation, thrust bearing, thruster, thrust fault, thrusting, thrust stage, thrutch, thruway, thrymsa

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How to use thrust fault in a sentence

But with the outbreak of hostilities in mid-2011, all festivities were thrust into the deep freeze.
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The central thrust of the sequence derives from historical fact.
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For a few minutes it seemed like old times, a return to the clearer fault-lines of the Cold War.
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Race is the San Andreas Fault of our culture as well as our history.
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It seemed she echoed all the things I was telling myself—this is YOUR fault.
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He thrust his tiny tuft of beard between his teeth—a trick he had when perplexed or thoughtful.
St. Martin's Summer|Rafael Sabatini
Great was the surprise of Alf at the honour and labour thus thrust upon him, but he did not shrink from it.
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne
You never cared—you were too proud to care; and when I spoke to you about my fault, you did n't even know what I meant.
Confidence|Henry James
He thrust the Cardinal's mantle into it, and stood over the smouldering cloth, till the whole was consumed to ashes.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4|Jane Porter
I only saw the glitter of a bayonet which a Mexican thrust into his shoulder, at the very moment he was helping me up.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various

British Dictionary definitions for thrust fault

thrust fault

noun

a fault in which the rocks on the upper side of an inclined fault plane have been displaced upwards, usually by compression; a reverse fault

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Scientific definitions for thrust fault

thrust fault

A reverse fault in which the fault plane is inclined at an angle equal to or less than 45°. See Note at fault.