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downthrown
downthrown, ppl. a. (stress variable) [f. down adv. + thrown ppl. a.] That has been thrown down; spec. in Geol., designating the side of a fault that has moved downwards relative to the other side.1897 in N.E.D. s.v. Down adv. 35. 1898 W. W. Watts Geol. for Beginners ix. 106 In miners' words a norma... Oxford English Dictionary
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upthrown
upˈthrown, ppl. a. [up- 5; see upthrow v.] Thrown or cast upwards; spec. in Geol., displaced or pushed upward on one side of a fault, relative to the other side.1898 [see *downthrown ppl. a. 2]. 1911 Minnesota Reports CXI. 59 The stone at the corner was twenty feet from the ditch on Seventh street, ... Oxford English Dictionary
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Rollover anticlines
A rollover anticline is a syn-depositional structure developed within the downthrown block (hanging wall) of large listric normal faults. wikipedia.org
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downthrow
▪ I. downthrow (ˈdaʊnθrəʊ) 1. A throwing or being thrown down. rare.1615 Catascopes in Farr S.P. Jas. I (1848) 352 Wars, the canker of estate, Hel's image and al commonweale's down⁓throw. 1891 Times 21 Oct. 5/3 Unable to take his down⁓throw philosophically. 2. Geol. The depression of strata below th... Oxford English Dictionary
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Growth fault
Because the fault plane flattens into décollement, the downthrown block moves basinward and the displaced sedimentary layer of the downthrown block bends The downthrown block slips downward and basinward relative to the upthrown block. wikipedia.org
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Long Point–Eureka Heights fault system
The various faults are characterized as normal faults, meaning that the downthrown side is in the direction of the dip of the fault plane. wikipedia.org
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Leinthall Earls
A geological fault runs roughly southwest – northeast just south of the quarry, and is downthrown to the south. References Villages in Herefordshire wikipedia.org
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Taupō Rift termination faults
This downthrown to the south normal fault has been active for over 18,000 years and has a dip-slip displacement rate of /year. Raetihi faults The E - W trending of the Raetihi North Fault is downthrown to the south while the Raetihi South Fault is downthrown to the north so wikipedia.org
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Haflong Thrust
Further west downthrown is southerly and still further west in Garo Hills the fault heads to the north along which the Shillong plateau has been shifted wikipedia.org
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Limagne
Geology The Limagne plain is a graben, downthrown from the Massif Central by a series of normal faults that border the western edge of the plain. wikipedia.org
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Fault (geology)
A downthrown block between two normal faults dipping towards each other is a graben. wikipedia.org
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Maungaongaonga
The hot water spring geothermal activity is confined to the downthrown side of the Ngapouri-Rotomahana Fault but steam geothermal activity is on both sides wikipedia.org
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Mess Creek
It has vertically displaced Holocene basalt flows by and older basalt flows by , such that the western side of the fault has been downthrown. wikipedia.org
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2020 Salt Lake City earthquake
The footwall (upthrown part) is formed by the Wasatch Range with part of the Great Basin lying in the hanging-wall (downthrown part), at one time filled wikipedia.org
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Eugene Island block 330 oil field
Geology The field is an anticlinal structure on the downthrown side of a major salt diapir associated growth fault and produces from 25 Pliocene-Pleistocene wikipedia.org
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