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is large (often in the kilometer range) the fault is called an overthrust or overthrust fault. Erosion can remove part of the overlying block, creating...

Overthrust is a four-piece death metal band from Ghanzi, Botswana. Overthrust was formed in 2008 in Ghanzi, Botswana. The band currently consists of vocalist...

The Lewis Overthrust is a geologic thrust fault structure of the Rocky Mountains found within the bordering national parks of Glacier in Montana, United...

; Beaudoin, Georges; Therrien, René; Burkhard, Martin (2002). "Glarus overthrust: A major pathway for the escape of fluids out of the Alpine orogen". Geology...

the Rocky Mountain Front, a 200 miles (320 km) long overthrust fault, known as the Lewis Overthrust, which extends from central Montana into southern Alberta...

occurred 50 to 100 million years ago, immense lateral pressures folded and overthrust the rocks in a great arc around the old rigid block of the northeast....

Going-to-the-Sun Road accommodate visitors. The local mountains, formed by an overthrust, expose Paleozoic fossils including trilobites, mollusks, giant ferns...

forced eastward up and over much younger rock strata. Known as the Lewis Overthrust, these sedimentary rocks are considered to have some of the finest examples...

with helping discover oil in the Moxa Arch area of Wyoming, and in the Overthrust Belt of western Wyoming and Utah. He served as an advisor to President...

south to about Helena is heavily deformed by faulting, folding, and overthrusting. During the Sevier orogeny mountain-building event about 115 and 55...

of continental crust is caught in a subduction zone with resulting overthrusting of oceanic mafic and ultramafic rocks from the mantle onto the continental...

recover from underthrust (going too slowly), but could not recover from overthrust (going too fast) – to protect highly temperature-sensitive instruments...

faulted and folded terrane (Appalachian Fold and Thrust Belt or Eastern Overthrust Belt), formed at the end of the Paleozoic by the Alleghanian orogeny,...

(42 km) long. It represents the "pivot point" of the Cumberland Mountain Overthrust Block. (first described in notable detail during the 1920s and 1930s by...

(Late Cretaceous) time. It crops out to the east of the Rocky Mountain Overthrust Belt, and the western portion (about 600 metres or 2,000 feet thick) of...

miles to the northwest. Cumberland Mountain is part of the Cumberland Overthrust Sheet or block and is the northern limb of the Powell Valley Anticline...

Bruegge, R. W.; Fletcher, R. C. (1 March 1990). "A Model for the Shape of Overthrust Zones on Venus". Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. 21: 1278. Bibcode:1990LPI...

extreme southern Alberta, Canada. It was formed as a result of the Lewis Overthrust, a geologic thrust fault resulted in the overlying of younger Cretaceous...

Gulf of Mexico near New Orleans. The Lewis Range was formed in the Lewis Overthrust, some 59-75 million years ago, when an enormous slab of Precambrian rock...

and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny. The Lewis Overthrust extends over 280 miles (450 km) from Mount Kidd in Alberta, south to Steamboat...