uptakert (uptaker)

[ME., upthrow (up-thrō'), v. t. To throw up; elevate. upthrow (up'thrō), n. [ of the two adjacent rock-faces, it is sometimes observed that the bedding of the formation has been influenced in its position along the line of the fault, and to a greater le distance from it, the dip being downward on the downthrow side and upward on the upthrow side of the fault. This is called by the miner "dipping to the downthrow" and "rising to the upthrow." Also used attributively. We rarely meet with a fi ure which has been made a true fault with an upthrow and downthrow side. Geikie, Geol. Sketches, xi. IMG:content-1613.png:[blocks in formation] To this ma , which I have no doubt is an upthrust portion of the old crystalline floor, succeeds another ma of "spotted rock." Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc., XLVI. 216. upthunder (up-thunder), v. i. To send up a loud thunder-like noise. [Rare.] Central fires through nether seas upthundering . Cole ridge, To the Departing Year.