page_title: Thrust fault
hierarchical_section_title: Thrust fault
caption_attribution_description: English: Small thrust fault, south-dipping and north-verging, Lilstock Bay, Somerset. The folded darker gray mudstone layer in the hanging wall is the same as the mudstone immediately above the beach in the footwall, giving a displacement of about 2 m.
context_page_description: A thrust fault is a break in the Earth's crust, across which older rocks are pushed above younger rocks.
context_section_description: A thrust fault is a break in the Earth's crust, across which older rocks are pushed above younger rocks.
caption: Small thrust fault in the cliffs at Lilstock Bay, Somerset, England; displacement of about two metres (6.6 ft)
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