Usually means: Rock layers pushed over others.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. overthrust fault: Merriam-Webster
  2. overthrust fault: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. overthrust fault: Vocabulary.com
  4. overthrust fault: Dictionary.com
  5. overthrust fault: Rhymezone
  6. overthrust fault: FreeDictionary.org
  7. overthrust fault: Mnemonic Dictionary
  8. overthrust fault: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. overthrust fault: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from WordNet (overthrust fault)

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


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