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What (who) is overthrust - 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
![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](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Faultbendfold.png?width=200 "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")
![Thrust fault in the [[Qilian Shan]], China. The older (left, blue and red) thrust over the younger (right, brown).](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thrust fault Qilian Shan.jpg?width=200 "Thrust fault in the [[Qilian Shan]], China. The older (left, blue and red) thrust over the younger (right, brown).")
overthrust
¦ verb (past and past participle overthrust) Geology force (a body of rock) over another formation.
Lewis Overthrust
GEOLOGIC THRUST FAULT OF THE CANADIAN ROCKIES IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATEA
Foreland Belt
The Lewis Overthrust is a geologic thrust fault structure of the Rocky Mountains found within the bordering national parks of Glacier in Montana, United States and Waterton Lakes in Alberta, Canada. The structure was created due to the collision of tectonic plates about 170 million years ago that drove a several mile thick wedge of rock eastwards, causing it to overlie softer Cretaceous age rock that is 400 to 500 million years younger.
Thrust fault
A thrust fault is a break in the Earth's crust, across which older rocks are pushed above younger rocks.
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Thrust fault
A thrust fault is a break in the Earth's crust, across which older rocks are pushed above younger rocks.
