upthrow
Example Sentences
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For the next half-mile, the river keeps to the upthrow side of the fault, the scarp of which blocks the tributary streams from the west, forming a number of small pools.
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Out, traitor!" cried the girl with a quick, scornful upthrow of the chin, "it is the smile that saves you, Louis, lad.
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Thou shouldst have lived to feel below Thy feet Disunion's fierce upthrow,— The late-sprung mine that underlaid Thy sad concessions vainly made.
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A series of great dislocations with upthrows on the east side traverse eastern North America from Canada to Alabama.
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There has also been a certain amount of upthrow owing to the hydrostatic pressure.
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