thrust fault

English

Etymology

Coined by geologist Archibald Geikie in 1884.

Noun

thrust fault (plural thrust faults)

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

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