upthrow

Example Sentences

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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 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

Thrust faults hade to the upthrow; the hanging wall has gone up.

From The Elements of Geology by Norton, William Harmon

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