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overthrust

The English word “overthrust” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A form of thrust fault from beneath a hanging wall of rock.

verb

  1. Of a body of rock: to force itself over another.

adjective

  1. Belonging to earlier strata, pushed by faulting over later and higher strata.

Etymology

From over- + thrust.

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