Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A throwing upward.
- noun Geology An upward displacement of rock on one side of a fault.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An upheaval; an uplift: in mining, the opposite of
downthrow . - To throw up; elevate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mining) See
throw , n., 9. - transitive verb To throw up.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb archaic, poetic To
throw orcast upwards. - verb geology, transitive To throw up (a mass of material) from below, causing a
fault . - verb geology, intransitive To be thrown up from below, causing a
fault . - noun geology A
fault in which a mass of material has been thrown up from below.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building)
Etymologies
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Examples
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This is termed the upthrow of the fault, as at B; and the downthrow, as at A.
Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Henry Flagg French
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The words came in hoarse, croaked, suppressed accents, with a separation of the hands, and an upthrow of the head and projecting cars which had such a comical look of being crushed beneath the weight of the battened-down cap.
Through Russia 2003
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For instance, de Beaumont suggested that the Pyrenees had been uplifted in a single sudden upthrow (en un seul jet) and that this elevation had occurred at the same time as that of the Alps. Von Buch and de Beaumont suggested that in the geological past there had occurred events on such an enormous scale as to be catastrophic in nature and without counterpart in the modern expe - rience of man.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas LEONARD G. WILSON 1968
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As we can easily see, in an earthquake jar traveling from the opposite end of the earth, there should be no insurmountable difficulty in recognizing the jar, which is a direct upthrow from one which would tilt it to the right or left.
Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 Anonymous
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The upthrow comes swiftly on the moment of impact.
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As we can easily see, in an earthquake jar traveling from the opposite end of the earth, there should be no insurmountable difficulty in recognizing the jar, which is a direct upthrow from one which would tilt it to the right or left.
The Scientific Monthly, October-December 1915 Scientific Monthly 1915
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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 Stewart Edward White 1909
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The words came in hoarse, croaked, suppressed accents, with a separation of the hands, and an upthrow of the head and projecting cars which had such a comical look of being crushed beneath the weight of the battened-down cap.
Through Russia Maksim Gorky 1902
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Thrust faults hade to the upthrow; the hanging wall has gone up.
The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900
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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 William Harmon Norton 1900
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