thrust fault

American  

noun

Geology.

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

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thrust fault British  

noun

1. 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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thrust fault Scientific  

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

2. See Note at fault

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Etymology

Origin of thrust fault

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

The summer’s Eastside L.A earthquakes, for instance, were centered on faults associated with the Puente Hills thrust fault system, which is underneath downtown L.A. and swaths of southeast L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2024

We should not expect that the thrust fault below each scarp has moved only once.

From Salon • Oct. 4, 2023

There are two styles of thrust fault deformation: thin-skinned faults that occur in superficial rocks lying on top of the continental plate and thick-skinned faults that reach deeper into the crust.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

The collision is still going on, as India moves several centimeters north each year, and this has created an unstable fissure in the planet's crust, known as the Himalayan frontal thrust fault.

From Scientific American • Apr. 27, 2015

And so, to save the long established doctrines of a very definite order of successive life-forms, this theory of a "thrust fault" is offered as the best available explanation.

From Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation by Price, George McCready