"backthrusting" meaning in English

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          "text": "The backthrusting of tectonic plates can cause reverse faults in geological structures."
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          "text": "Folds are overturned toward the east, and the upper blocks of major thrusts moved from west to east, with local sympathetic backthrusting from east to west.",
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          "text": "The cause of the backthrusting is equivocal.",
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        "(geology) The act or process of thrusting backward, typically in a physical, mechanical, or figurative sense, such as a counteraction or retrograde motion."
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