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- verb Present participle of
underthrust .
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Examples
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"We'll keep track of the seismic activity to see whether it continues to indicate this underthrusting of the Mediterranean subsurface underneath North Africa," said Rinus Wortel.
BBC News - Home 2011
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His model, shown below, incorporates continental rifting and ocean creation above upwellings, and underthrusting of ocean crust and mountain buliding at the edges of continents to accommodate it.
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His model, shown below, incorporates continental rifting and ocean creation above upwellings, and underthrusting of ocean crust and mountain buliding at the edges of continents to accommodate it.
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His model, shown below, incorporates continental rifting and ocean creation above upwellings, and underthrusting of ocean crust and mountain buliding at the edges of continents to accommodate it.
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Detrital zircon evidence for progressive underthrusting in Franciscan metagraywackes, west-central California
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Calvert interprets the package of higher amplitude reflectors (darker color) as the underthrusting Juan de Fuca plate.
Clastic Detritus 2008
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