upthrow

A throwing upward.

An upward displacement of rock on one side of a fault.

To throw up; elevate.

An upheaval; an uplift: in mining, the opposite of downthrow.

To throw up.

See throw, n., 9.

To throw or cast upwards.

To throw up (a mass of material) from below, causing a fault.

To be thrown up from below, causing a fault.

A fault in which a mass of material has been thrown up from below.