Definition of Backthrusting. Meaning of Backthrusting. Synonyms of Backthrusting

- sedimentary rock along the basal decollement of an accretionary wedge. Backthrusting of the rear of the accretionary wedge, arcward over the rocks of the...
- the coast of western Java there is potentially a backthrust fault. The existence of the backthrust could increase the height of tsunamis off the coast...
- Indian and Eurasian plates, the northern segment of ophiolitic rock was backthrust onto the edge of the Eurasian Plate, separating from the southern ophiolite...
- verging. This indicates that the Jabal Hafit anticline formed due to a backthrust (antithetic fault), and is a fault-propagation fold. Within the eroded...
- 1029/2001JE001593. Schultz, R. A. (2000). "Localization of Bedding Plane Slip and Backthrust Faults Above Blind Thrust Faults: Keys to Wrinkle Ridge Structure". Journal...
- the larger backthrust of the back-arc region of Indonesia. Earlier marine geophysical studies have suggested that the back-arc backthrust consists of...
- Carpathian Paleogene Basin rocks are usually not folded, however, local backthrusting was do****ented. Mol****e deposits laid down in the Oligocene span into...
- south-directed antiformal stack. Towards the end of the subduction, a backthrust initiated near the actual trace of the North Pyrenean Fault, which was...
- northern edge of the ridge is generally interpreted as a northward-moving backthrust. The degree to which the observed thrust faults within the ridge connect...
- reaching the brittle regime the continuing shortening led to thrusting and backthrusting (especially along the south side of Mount Canigou). Since several revisions...