Sentence examples for overthrust fault from inspiring English sources
Tectonically, Azadegan oil field is situated in the southwest of the Zagros overthrust fault zone and in the transition zone between the Zagros foreland basin and Arabian platform (Soleimani 2013).
Their western margin is bordered on overthrust faults, which have produced large westward overthrusts on each of them, with amplitudes of 10 30 kms, and are utilized through a large diapir masses.
The evaporites also extended along all of the regional overthrust faults of the Berati belt, and they helped increase the size of this overthrust (Figs. 10, 12, 17, 19).
The youngest rocks in the Arctic foothills consist of sediments of Paleozoic (about 252 to 541 million years old) and Cretaceous (66 to 145 million years old) age that are folded, faulted, and overthrust toward the north.
Because of the numerous overthrusts, or horizontal faults, in some places the layers overlap each other.
Localisation of the studied area in the centre of the Mediterranean Basin; (a) outer limit of overthrust fronts; (b) main transcurrent faults.
The structures of the western line (Bureto-Lunxheri-Goliko-Rehova) have western asymmetry and are limited by a regional fault that has an overthrust character (Figs. 14, 16, 17).
Versatility with fault tolerance.
Hanging wall anticlines formed by high-angle faults are present beneath the overthrust of the Berati anticlinal belt.
