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 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
There has also been a certain amount of upthrow owing to the hydrostatic pressure.
From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by John Joly
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
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
With respect to the age at which the several parallel ridges composing the Cordillera were upthrown, I have little evidence.
From Geological Observations on South America by Charles Darwin
Outside the building on a patch of higher land, an upthrown plateau of rock, where presently all gathered beyond the reach of the waters, stood Menzi and Tabitha.
From Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales by Henry Rider Haggard
They are clad in dresses made of fish scales, which are fastened with diamonds and pale emeralds, to imitate the upthrown spray on the crest of a wave.
From For Love of the King a Burmese Masque by Oscar Wilde
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
