Sentence examples for thrust motion from inspiring English sources

The deformation of the entire fault exhibited a pattern of left-lateral and thrust motion.

Because these shear bands accommodate subduction-driven thrust motion, their activity could produce a focal mechanism consistent with that of a gently dipping thrust fault.

The resulting moment tensor has a scalar moment of 5.3 · 1029 dyne-cm, and a geometry that indicates thrust motion of the Pacific Plate beneath the island of Honshu on a plane dipping 10°.

The surface break of the northern segment shows similar amounts of strike-slip and thrust motion, in contrast to the predominant strike-slip motion in the models by Hayes and Ji (2008) and Nishimura and Yagi (2008).

The fourth is that this active back-arc activity compensates for the oblique motion of the Indo-Australian plate, leaving the predominantly low-angle thrust motion component observed in the 2004 Sumatra- Andaman earthquake (Lay et al., 2005; Stein and Okal, 2007).

To throw, throw like a dart, but with a javelin/baseball thrust motion.

He made a thrusting motion with his hips.

He loved his own vigorous, thrusting motion, and the violent impulse of the very cold water against his limbs, buoying him up".

Based on our best fits (Fig. 6b and Additional file 1: Figure S2), the first-order patterns of the afterslip show more dextral strike-slip movements on the five crustal faults and visible thrusting motion at the Hikurangi subduction interface.

These may agree with the strike-slip and thrusting motion of the megasplay fault suggested by the geometric features around the fault on seismic profiles and ocean floor topography (Tsuji et al. 2014).

A common complaint felt by women with a vaginal infection include a stinging or burning sensation caused by the thrusting motion of the penis against the vagina.