| 单词 | upthrow |
| 例句 | The upthrow is uniformly on the eastern side of the fault. A Study of Recent Earthquakes Out, traitor!" cried the girl with a quick, scornful upthrow of the chin, "it is the smile that saves you, Louis, lad. Patsy Thou shouldst have lived to feel below Thy feet Disunion's fierce upthrow,— The late-sprung mine that underlaid Thy sad concessions vainly made. Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two A series of great dislocations with upthrows on the east side traverse eastern North America from Canada to Alabama. The Hudson Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention There has also been a certain amount of upthrow owing to the hydrostatic pressure. The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays For the next half-mile, the river keeps to the upthrow side of the fault, the scarp of which blocks the tributary streams from the west, forming a number of small pools. A Study of Recent Earthquakes In Figure 184 the right side has gone down relatively to the left; the right is the side of the downthrow, while the left is the side of the upthrow. The Elements of Geology The other side of the semicircle was occupied by the upthrow of a low rise blocking off an horizon at its nearest point but a few hundred yards away. The Land of Footprints The pool is simply due to the reversal of the natural slope of the river-bed, caused by the formation of a roll or undulation in the ground on the upthrow side of the fault. A Study of Recent Earthquakes Thrust faults hade to the upthrow; the hanging wall has gone up. The Elements of Geology |
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