thrust fault in a sentence
Examples
- Southern California sits on blind thrust faults, experts say.
- It is " the poster child of blind thrust faults underneath Los Angeles, " he said.
- Blind thrust faults produce quakes when one side pushes upward but does not break the surface.
- Thrust faults typically form ramps, flats and fault-bend ( hanging wall and foot wall ) folds.
- The western margin area is bound by synclines and reverse thrusts faults and is structurally complex.
- The PTZ also displays blind thrust faults and folds ( essentially buried folds and faults ).
- Thrust faults are especially scary because many are unseen, concealed beneath mountains of dirt and rock.
- The 24-mile blind thrust fault, which runs from Huntington Beach to Dana Point, was discovered in March.
- The fault zone contains older ( Tertiary ) mylonites, showing it was a ductile compressive thrust fault.
- The Palaeozoic basement is traversed by thrust faults more or less parallel to the north-south structural grain.