upthrust's Usage Examples:

Buoyancy (/ˈbɔɪənsi, ˈbuːjənsi/), or upthrust, is an upward force exerted by a fluid that opposes the weight of a partially or fully immersed object.

this region over a volcanic "hotspot" in the Earth's mantle causing an upthrust of magma which formed the Appalachian-Ouachita range.

forest preserved in stone, that had been growing on the site before the upthrust of the Andes some 150 million years ago.

Macquarie Island, far to the south, is also Australian territory but it is an upthrust piece of ocean floor in the remote Southern Ocean and is in a geological.

severity of the damage caused by the earthquake is attributed to severe upthrust.

Kupe's Sail is another feature of Cape Palliser - a triangular upthrust of sedimentary rock shaped like a sail.

Snow's Island, at that point, is believed to be the upthrust formed at the center of the crater after the impact.

East Java Sea, or to the structural geology of the setting, as in the sub-upthrust play of Wyoming.

throw of several hundred metres whereby the northern block was uplifted or upthrust relative to the southern block.

object is "partially or completely immersed in a fluid", where there is an "upthrust" from the fluid that is working against the force of gravity.

Foul Bay has many islands that were formed by an upthrust of rock near the mantle during the convergence of two continental plates.

under the continental South American Plate and is associated with the upthrust and volcanic activity of the Andes.

relation is not what is known as Archimedes' principle—that deals with the upthrust experienced by a body immersed in a fluid.

The summit of Stone Arthur is difficult to locate exactly amongst the upthrust rocks of Arthur's Chair.

It is an isolated upthrust peak of 3,849 feet (1,173 meters), visible from most of the San Francisco.

The water in the caisson (due to a high water table) balances the upthrust forces of the soft soils underneath.

Graystones summit is grassy, the highest point marked by a slight upthrust in the underlying rock.

Catskills as a whole, a dissected plateau, Halcott was formed not through the upthrust of rock layers but by the gradual erosion of stream valleys in an uplifted.

Beyond this is the final upthrust of Lonscale Fell before the craggy descent to the Glenderaterra Beck, The.

Synonyms:

upheaval; uplift; ascension; rising; rise; upthrow; ascent;

Antonyms:

decrease; descend; stay in place; descent; fall;