Phrases with «upthrust»

Sentences with «upthrust»

  • Thus we have berm, a lovely word for a longish mound used for landscaping; pingos, if you're up north, where they'll be rather large conical upthrusts of ice covered with some soil (and, of course, given the yin / yang of this business, further south also a circular depression typically filled with water); further south still you'll trip over drumlins, formations made up of till left by receding glaciers, and not to be confused with eskers, which seem to have formed within holes inside glacier. (slaw.ca)
  • Then there's Samsung, which went all - in this year when it opened its concept store — called simply «837» — in New York's Meat Packing District, a gleaming upthrust middle finger in the general direction of Apple. (canadianbusiness.com)
  • This is a laccolith upthrust through sediment, perduring like a myth through man's prehistory, Pa Sapa's pediment. (firstthings.com)
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