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Downthrow
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Down´throw`
n.1.(Geol.) The sudden drop or depression of the strata of rocks on one side of a fault. See Throw, n.


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The field is a low-relief downthrown rollover anticline structure that produced primarily from Frio sand reservoirs with Cockfield and Sparta sands as secondary objectives.
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The prospect is upthrown to a regional East-West trending fault system that traps production at Kings Ridge and Coffee Bay on both upthrown and downthrown sides of the fault.
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