English Explanatory Dictionary

thrust fault

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A type of reverse fault in which the angle that the hanging wall makes with the horizontal is less than 45 degrees.

Word forms

thrust fault thrust faults

Etymology

Coined by geologist Archibald Geikie in 1884.

Derived words

blind thrust fault overthrust
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