| 单词 | thrust slice |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthrust slice b. Geology. A relatively thin, broad mass of rock situated between two approximately parallel thrust faults, esp. when these make a small angle with the horizontal. Also thrust slice. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > mass > [noun] > of rock > between faults cleavage-mass1871 trough fault1883 horst1893 fault-block1897 thrust-mass1901 klippe1902 slice1914 rift block1915 nappe1922 1914 B. N. Peach & J. Horne Guide Geol. Model Assynt Mts. 18 The slices of strata thus repeated have been driven westwards by major thrusts along planes which truncate the overlying reversed faults. 1942 M. P. Billings Struct. Geol. xvii. 327 Surrounding the basin is a zone..of outwardly-driven thrust slices. In still another zone..rootless slices and isolated blocks of various slices are common. 1957 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 113 59 They occur..as infolds, and slices brought up along the Strathconon tear-fault. 1969 G. M. Bennison & A. E. Wright Geol. Hist. Brit. Isles iii. 46 In it [sc. the Laxfordian orogeny] are found fragments of earlier orogenic belts brought up as thrust slices. < as lemmas |
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