reverse fault
noun
: a geological fault in which the hanging wall appears to have been pushed up along the footwall
Word History
First Known Use
1865, in the meaning defined above
- engine bell
- engine burn fracture
- engine company
- engine control
- engine driver
- engine lathe
- engine mount
- engine room
- engine sand
- engine turning
- engine-room telegraph
- engine-size
- engine-turn
- engined
- engineer
- engineer boot
- engineer's brake valve
- engineer's chain
- engineer's hammer
- engineer's level
- engineer's rule
- engineer's scale
- engineered
- engineering
- engineering geology