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  • Thrust fault — in the Qilian Shan, China. The older (left, blue and red) thrust over the younger (right, brown). A thrust fault is a type of fault, or break in the Earth s crust across which there has been relative movement, in which rocks of lower… …   Wikipedia

  • Thrust — is a reaction force described quantitatively by Newton s Second and Third Laws. When a system expels or accelerates mass in one direction the accelerated mass will cause a proportional but opposite force on that system.ExamplesA fixed wing… …   Wikipedia

  • Champlain Thrust — Fault, Lone Rock Point, Burlington Vermont The Champlain Thrust is a fault extending southward from southern Quebec, though western Vermont in the Champlain Valley, and i …   Wikipedia

  • Blind thrust earthquake — A blind thrust earthquake is an earthquake along a thrust fault that does not show signs on the earth s surface, hence the designation blind [http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learning/glossary.php?term=blind%20thrust%20fault] . Such faults, being… …   Wikipedia

  • Champlain thrust — The Champlain Thrust Fault extends southward from southern Quebec, though western Vermont (in the Champlain Valley), and into eastern New York (in the Hudson Valley). This east dipping thrust fault transports Cambrian Ordovician passive margin… …   Wikipedia

  • fold-thrust hills —    A landscape along an orogenic belt margin underlain dominantly by sedimentary rocks that have undergone intensive structural deformation via a series of sub parallel thrust faults and associated folds. The thrust faults typically merge along a …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms

  • mountain — mountainless, adj. /mown tn/, n. 1. a natural elevation of the earth s surface rising more or less abruptly to a summit, and attaining an altitude greater than that of a hill, usually greater than 2000 ft. (610 m). 2. a large mass of something… …   Universalium

  • Insect wing — Original veins and wing posture of a dragonfly. Hoverflies hovering to mate …   Wikipedia

  • Geology of the Iberian Peninsula — The geology of the Iberian Peninsula consists of the study of the rock formations on the Iberian Peninsula, which includes Spain, Portugal, Andorra, and Gibraltar. The peninsula contains rocks from every age from Ediacaran to Recent, and almost… …   Wikipedia

  • Trans-Hudson orogeny — [ North American craton, also called Laurentia.] [ Wyoming, Superior and Hearne cratons] The Trans Hudson orogeny, Trans Hudsonian orogeny, Trans Hudson orogen (THO), or Trans Hudson Orogen Transect (THOT), (also referred to as the Trans… …   Wikipedia

  • Asia — /ay zheuh, ay sheuh/, n. a continent bounded by Europe and the Arctic, Pacific, and Indian oceans. 2,896,700,000; ab. 16,000,000 sq. mi. (41,440,000 sq. km). * * * I Largest continent on Earth. It is bounded by the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean …   Universalium

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