How to pronounce “overthrust”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (geology, ambitransitive) A form of thrust fault from beneath a hanging wall of rock.
• [Verb]
• (geology, intransitive) Of a body of rock: to force itself over another.
• [Adjective]
• (geology) Belonging to earlier strata, pushed by faulting over later and higher strata.

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