English Explanatory Dictionary

overthrust

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A form of thrust fault from beneath a hanging wall of rock.
verb
  1. Of a body of rock: to force itself over another.
adj
  1. Belonging to earlier strata, pushed by faulting over later and higher strata.

Word forms

overthrust overthrusts overthrusting overthrusted

Etymology

From over- + thrust.

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