Usually means: Geological layers forced over another.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (overthrust)

noun:  (geology, ambitransitive) A form of thrust fault from beneath a hanging wall of rock.
verb:  (geology, intransitive) Of a body of rock: to force itself over another.
adjective:  (geology) Belonging to earlier strata, pushed by faulting over later and higher strata.

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