downthrow

Example Sentences

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I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, downthrow and upheaval .

From Time Magazine Archive

Instead of being discouraged by adverse attacks he had 212 gained new vigor from each downthrow.

From David Dunne A Romance of the Middle West by Maniates, Belle Kanaris

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 Norton, William Harmon

The entire country from this point to Sydney Heads has been slowly let down by one of those great earth movements known as a "downthrow fault."

From Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil by Willoughby, Howard

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 Norton, William Harmon