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What (who) is overthrust fault - definition

A TYPE OF REVERSE FAULT THAT HAS A DIP OF 45 DEGREES OR LESS
Thrust faults; Duplex fault; Imbricate stack; Thrust Fault; Blind thrust fault; Schuppen structure; Fault-bend fold; Fault-bend folds; Overthrust; Thrust faulting; Tectonic imbrication
  • Antiformal stack of thrust imbricates proved by drilling, Brooks Range Foothills, Alaska
  • Development of thrust duplex by progressive failure of ramp footwall
  • Diagram of the evolution of a fault propagation fold
  • Diagram of the evolution of a fault-bend fold or 'ramp anticline' above a thrust ramp, the ramp links [[decollement]]s at the top of the green and yellow layers
  • Lewisian gneisses]] thrust over well-bedded [[Cambrian]] [[quartzite]], along the top of the younger unit.
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  • Thrust Fault Outcrop
  • Thrust fault in the [[Qilian Shan]], China. The older (left, blue and red) thrust over the younger (right, brown).

Electrical fault         
ABNORMAL ELECTRIC CURRENT
Asymmetric fault; Symmetric fault; Transient fault; Persistent fault; Fault current; Electrical faults; Prospective fault current; Earth fault; Restricted earth fault; Fault (electric); Ground Fault; Ground fault; SLGF; Single line to ground fault; Line to line fault; Double line to ground fault; DLGF; Double line-to-ground fault; Line-to-line fault; Bolted fault; Line-to-ground fault; Single line-to-ground fault; Fault (power engineering); Through fault; Incipient fault; Internal fault
In an electric power system, a fault or fault current is any abnormal electric current. For example, a short circuit is a fault in which a live wire touches a neutral or ground wire.
Lusatian Fault         
  • Natural monument of [[Suché skály]], [[Bohemian Paradise]]
Lausitzer Verwerfung; Lusatian fault
The Lusatian Fault (), formerly Lusatian Overthrust (Lausitzer Überschiebung), is the most important geological disturbance zone between the Elbe valley and the Giant Mountains. It is a fault that separates the granite of Lusatia from the Cretaceous sandstones of North Bohemia to the south.
Humboldt Fault         
CLASS C IN KANSAS
Humboldt fault; Humboldt Fault Zone
The Humboldt Fault or Humboldt Fault Zone, is a normal fault or series of faults, that extends from Nebraska southwestwardly through most of Kansas.from the Kansas Geological Survey (at the University of Kansas) site, oil geology page, accessed on December 16, 2006

Wikipedia

Thrust fault

A thrust fault is a break in the Earth's crust, across which older rocks are pushed above younger rocks.