upthrow
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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.
From The Land of Footprints by Stewart Edward White
The pool is simply due to the reversal of the natural slope of the river-bed, caused by the formation of a roll or undulation in the ground on the upthrow side of the fault.
From A Study of Recent Earthquakes by Charles Davison
The upthrow is uniformly on the eastern side of the fault.
From A Study of Recent Earthquakes by Charles Davison
Thrust faults hade to the upthrow; the hanging wall has gone up.
From The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton
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.
From A Study of Recent Earthquakes by Charles Davison
Then, the vast volcano burst; rent the whole mass; upthrew the ancient rocks; which now in divers mountain tops tell tales of what existed ere Mardi was completely fashioned.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville
Then, quick The sash upthrowing, she made as if to speak Harshly; but still he held his quiet eyes Upon her.
From Rose and Roof-Tree — Poems by George Parsons Lathrop
This a modern example of a Gilbert-type delta, which is a delta composed primarily of coarse material actively eroded from the mountainous upthrown block to the north.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
Where there were no upthrown mounds of gravel, great holes and trenches yawned, and chasms where the thick rime of the earth had been peeled to bed-rock.
From Children of the Frost by Jack London
To the left was the seemingly endless ice-field that looked like the angry billows of a storm-tossed sea which had been arrested at the height of tempest, its white-capped, upthrown waves paralyzed cold and dead.
From Polaris of the Snows by Charles B. Stilson
He threw back his narrow chest and stuck his fingers in his waistcoat and surveyed his interlocutor with upthrown chin.
From The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel by Mary E. Hanshew
Liot quickly raised himself, but he had barely time to distinguish the white horror of his enemy’s face and the despair of his upthrown arms.
From Prisoners of Conscience by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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