Thrust Fault

Word THRUST FAULT
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So as the interior of the moon cooled, it contracted, and that contraction ends up causing the crust of the moon to have to adjust to that decrease in volume and creates the thrust-fault scarps that we're looking at. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Dr. WATTERS: Well, it tells us that something global has happened, I mean, because again, we didn't know that these thrust-fault scarps occurred everywhere on the moon until we had the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter camera images. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But what's really interesting about these young, these thrust-fault scarps is the fact that, one, that they're young. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When they occur underwater, thrust-fault earthquakes are far more likely to create tsunamis than tremors on strike-slip faults, said David Schwartz, an earthquake geologist with the geological survey in Menlo Park, Calif. ❋ By HENRY FOUNTAIN (2010)

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