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upthrust
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upthrust
Geology a violent upheaval of the earth's surface


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3 -- 4) These logs, above, in the Long Logs region of the Petrified Forest National Park, appear cut to fireplace length with a chain saw, but the fossilized wood actually cracked and broke as the result of upthrusts in the earth.
A LEGACY ETCHED IN STONE by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Here, in a garden of angled upthrusts, is a ridge with precise layers of red and tan, like Neapolitan ice cream.
TRACES OF THE AGES A DIVERSE HUMAN HISTORY HAS LEFT ITS STAMP ON ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
 
 
 
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