A fault of recent date may be marked at surface by a scarp, because the face of the upthrown block has not yet been worn to the level of the downthrow side.
Draw a second diagram showing the same block after denudation has worn it down below the center of the upthrown side.
Diagram to illustrate-the derangements of flow of water at the time of an earthquake; water issuing at the surface over downthrown rocks, and being sucked down in upthrown blocks.
Diagrams to show how an escarpment originally on the upthrown side of the fault may, through erosion, appear upon the downthrown side.
The first effect of a fault is usually to produce a crack at the surface of the earth; and, provided there is a vertical displacement or throw, an escarpment which rises upon the upthrown side of the fault.
He threw back his narrow chest and stuck his fingers in his waistcoat and surveyed his interlocutor with upthrown chin.
Cleek leaned down and lifted her head in his uninjured arm; and looked down into her upthrown ghastly face.
Cleek at this juncture, with an arching of the brows and a keen look into her upthrown face.
As the day lightened, in the half-dawn, the columns of earth upthrown by the shells seemed like gray specters that appeared for a moment and then vanished.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "upthrown" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
