upthrust

How To Use upthrust In A Sentence

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• An upthrust mountain at center is bathed in an explosion of sulfurous yellow rising above a vaporous veil of green, with the pale-lavender light of something like moonrise off to the right.
• The Grenadiers consist of upthrusted blocks of Precambrian Quartzite and slate.
• And surmounting a higher ledge beyond this upthrust a huge dome of dull gold, Cyclopean, striking eyes and mind with something unhumanly alien, baffling; sending the mind groping, as though across the deserts of space, from some far-flung star, should fall upon us linked sounds, coherent certainly, meaningful surely, vaguely familiar -- yet never to be translated into any symbol or thought of our own particular planet. The Moon Pool
• The hills were formed by some upthrusting of the earth's crust which changed the landscape dramatically after the weight of the ice was melted away.
• An upthrust mountain at center is bathed in an explosion of sulfurous yellow rising above a vaporous veil of green, with the pale-lavender light of something like moonrise off to the right.
• Much of the island is an ancient limestone seabed that has been upthrusted by tectonic forces.
• He turned slowly and Norit turned, until they saw the tower again, set against the red, saw-toothed upthrust of the Qarain. HAMMERFALL
• He swore and kicked at the trunk as it caught on an upthrust root, then swore again as it jerked free and slammed into his shin.
• Over several million years these large blocks of land were upthrusted, dissected by erosion, and then inundated by the sea; during this period, sedimentary layers formed of varying thicknesses.