The Gardiner thrust fault has been mapped in detail from the west side of Cinnabar Mountain, Montana, where it appears from under a cover of Tertiary volcanics, southeastward to a point 3 miles east ...

On Saturday, a portion of the thrust fault underneath central Nepal ruptured, causing an earthquake that killed at least 5,200 people, injured more than 10,000 and destroyed centuries-old temples ...

Vahe Gabuchian, Ares J. Rosakis, Harsha S. Bhat, Raúl Madariaga, Hiroo Kanamori. Experimental evidence that thrust earthquake ruptures might open faults. Nature, 2017; DOI: 10.1038/nature22045 ...

Scientists first deduced that the moon had shrunk in 2010, when analysis of imagery from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) revealed these thrust faults. However, a new analysis, published ...

The Moine Thrust forms part of the North West Highland Geopark. The park is part of a European network of areas with important geology. It has rocks of more than 3,000 million years old. According ...

Siccar Point in the Scottish Borders is often regarded as the birthplace of the science of geology The Moine Thrust in the Highlands is a huge fault formed 430 million years ago ...