thrust fault

1. 1.

   a geological fault in which the upper side appears to have been pushed upward by compression

   Synonymsoverthrust faultreverse fault

   Broaderinclined fault

Questions about thrust fault

What does thrust fault mean?

thrust fault means "a geological fault in which the upper side appears to have been pushed upward by compression".

What is another word for thrust fault?

Close synonyms include overthrust fault, reverse fault. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is thrust fault a common word?

thrust fault is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.