This is termed the upthrow of the fault, as at B; and the downthrow, as at A.    From Wordnik.com.  [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference

As we can easily see, in an earthquake jar traveling from the opposite end of the earth, there should be no insurmountable difficulty in recognizing the jar, which is a direct upthrow from one which would tilt it to the right or left.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference

For instance, de Beaumont suggested that the Pyrenees had been uplifted in a single sudden upthrow (en un seul jet) and that this elevation had occurred at the same time as that of the Alps. Von Buch and de Beaumont suggested that in the geological past there had occurred events on such an enormous scale as to be catastrophic in nature and without counterpart in the modern expe - rience of man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

The upthrow comes swiftly on the moment of impact.    From Wordnik.com.  [“The Man-o’-War’s ’Er ’Usband”] Reference

The upthrow is uniformly on the eastern side of the fault.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Recent Earthquakes] Reference

There has also been a certain amount of upthrow owing to the hydrostatic pressure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays] Reference

In Figure 184 the right side has gone down relatively to the left; the right is the side of the downthrow, while the left is the side of the upthrow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Geology] Reference

The other side of the semicircle was occupied by the upthrow of a low rise blocking off an horizon at its nearest point but a few hundred yards away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Footprints] Reference

For the next half-mile, the river keeps to the upthrow side of the fault, the scarp of which blocks the tributary streams from the west, forming a number of small pools.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Recent Earthquakes] Reference

The words came in hoarse, croaked, suppressed accents, with a separation of the hands, and an upthrow of the head and projecting cars which had such a comical look of being crushed beneath the weight of the battened-down cap.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Russia] Reference

Ask him this one minute upthrow inner lotus of his burly ear womit he dropped his Bass’s to P flat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnegans Wake] Reference

"Out, traitor!" cried the girl with a quick, scornful upthrow of the chin, "it is the smile that saves you, Louis, lad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patsy] Reference

Thy feet Disunion's fierce upthrow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference

Thy feet Disunion's fierce upthrow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two] Reference