downthrow
Example Sentences
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I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, downthrow and upheaval .
From Time Magazine Archive
A thrust fault with a hade of 30 degrees, showing cliffs due to harder strata outcropping on the downthrow.
From The Elements of Geology by Norton, William Harmon
Instead of being discouraged by adverse attacks he had 212 gained new vigor from each downthrow.
From David Dunne A Romance of the Middle West by Maniates, Belle Kanaris
The entire country from this point to Sydney Heads has been slowly let down by one of those great earth movements known as a "downthrow fault."
From Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil by Willoughby, Howard
When the breath of creation first fashion'd fair France, Did the Spirit of Ill, in his downthrow appalling, Bruise the world, and thus hollow thy basin while falling?
From Lucile by Meredith, Owen
