downthrow
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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
Normal faults, of which Figure 184 is an example, hade to the downthrow; the hanging wall has gone down.
From The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton
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 Howard Willoughby
The escarpments, however, are due in a large degree to the erosion of weaker rock on the downthrow side.
From The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton
A thrust fault with a hade of 30 degrees, showing cliffs due to harder strata outcropping on the downthrow.
From The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton
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