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thrust
Vox populi noun Pressure in a particular direction. See Recoil thrust, Rotational thrust.


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All the really big earthquakes tend to be thrust faults that are occurring on plate boundaries or on faults associated with plate motions.
Instead of the almost inscrutable lands of the western orogen, we are now poking among braided thrust faults, telescoped facies boundaries and sedately sprawled Early Cretaceous plutonic suites in the northern miogeocline in pursuit of either a cryptic great fault, or 2000 kilometres worth of distributed dextral smearing, or both.
Strike-slip faults are much less efficient at making tsunamis than thrust faults," says Ward.
 
 
 
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