upthrow
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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.
From Patsy by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
The upthrow is uniformly on the eastern side of the fault.
From A Study of Recent Earthquakes by Charles Davison
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
In Figure 184 the right side has gone down relatively to the left; the right is the side of the downthrow, while the left is the side of the upthrow.
From The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton
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
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
"Gently, gently, my friend," interposed Cleek, as he neatly caught Merriton's upthrown arm.
From The Riddle of the Frozen Flame by Walter De Maris
A fault of recent date may be marked at surface by a scarp, because the face of the upthrown block has not yet been worn to the level of the downthrow side.
From The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton
Again, subsequently to the upheavement of the Cumbre chain, that of Uspallata was formed and elevated; and afterwards, I may add, in the plain of Uspallata, beds of sand and gravel were violently upthrown.
From Geological Observations on South America by Charles Darwin
Next came a booming crash and a flood of upthrown water, in the wash of which that speaker was carried away into the deep.
From When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot by Henry Rider Haggard
