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Overthrust Moderate

Origin: Germanic Old English prefix

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Noun
1

A form of thrust fault from beneath a hanging wall of rock.

Verb
1

Of a body of rock: to force itself over another.

Adjective
1

Belonging to earlier strata, pushed by faulting over later and higher strata.

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