upthrow
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The upthrow is uniformly on the eastern side of the fault.
From A Study of Recent Earthquakes by Davison, Charles
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 Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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 Davison, Charles
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 Davison, Charles
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 White, Stewart Edward
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 Melville, Herman
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 Lathrop, George Parsons
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
Draw a second diagram showing the same block after denudation has worn it down below the center of the upthrown side.
From The Elements of Geology by Norton, William Harmon
"I—I—that is—yes, I saw him last night," she replied, with flaming cheeks and upthrown chin.
From The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel by Hanshew, Mary E.
She closed her eyes, pillowed her head on her upthrown arms, and sank into a wide, bright reverie, which grew dimmer and vaguer as the slow changeless hours filed by.
From Hillsboro People by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
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 Hanshew, Mary E.
