Usually means: Rock layers pushed over others.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. thrust fault: Merriam-Webster
  2. thrust fault: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. thrust fault: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. thrust fault: Collins English Dictionary
  5. thrust fault: Vocabulary.com
  6. thrust-fault: Wordnik
  7. thrust fault: Wiktionary
  8. thrust fault: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. thrust fault: Dictionary.com
  10. Thrust Fault, Thrust fault: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. thrust fault: Rhymezone
  12. thrust fault: FreeDictionary.org
  13. thrust fault: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. thrust fault: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. thrust fault: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. thrust fault: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. thrust fault: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. thrust fault: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Earthquake Image Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  3. thrust fault: Dictionary of Geology

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See thrust_faulting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (thrust fault)

noun:  (geology) A type of reverse fault in which the angle that the hanging wall makes with the horizontal is less than 45 degrees.

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