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
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
The downthrow was not the work of one single act of disturbance—it went on for ages.
From Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil by Howard Willoughby
When the breath of creation first fashion'd fair France, Did the Spirit of Ill, in his downthrow appalling, Bruise the world, and thus hollow thy basin while falling?
From Lucile by Owen Meredith
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
