单词 | thrust fault |
释义 | thrust fault (once / 393978 pages) n WORD FAMILY thrust fault: thrust faults USAGE EXAMPLESIn this region, “we’re basically being squeezed from Oregon to Canada,” which creates thrust faults. Seattle Times(Aug 24, 2016) Over decades, stress built up along a stretch of the fault line, which is called the Main Himalayan Thrust fault, close to Nepal's capital Kathmandu. BBC(Aug 06, 2015) The earthquake struck on a shallowly dipping thrust fault that angled only 10 degrees from the surface. Washington Post(May 04, 2015) n a geological fault in which the upper side appears to have been pushed upward by compression Syn|Hyper overthrust fault, reverse fault inclined fault a geological fault in which one side is above the other |
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