The terminology of growth faults is confused.

There is little doubt that

concurrent fault (Tiddeman, 1890) has priority, when applied to a fault that
has different facies of correlative units across it and, by analogy, to a fault
that
has a thicker sedimentary sequence on the downthrown side than the
upthrown
side. Currie (1956) used both concurrent and contemporaneous; Liechti
et al. (1960) used depositional, following common U.S. Gulf Coast usage;
Ocamb (1961) used growth, but Hardin and Hardin (1961) stated that
contemporaneous
had “some claim to priority”. In addition to these, synsedimentary
has been and is still widely used. Less desirable synonyms include
progressive and Gulf Coast type (!). Dennis (1967) accepted growth fault for
the International Tectonic Dictionary, and recommended that all synonyms
be dropped.
Because concurrent cannot be revived with any hope of acceptance, and
the multiplicity of synonyms can serve no useful purpose, we bow to the
International Tectonic Dictionary here, and accept growth fault as the term
to be applied to a fault that separates correlative sequences of different
thicknesses,
with the thicker sequence on the downthrown side.
The terminology for growth structures other than faults has not received
much attention. Growth anticlines are sometimes called growth structures,
but “structure” is a wide term that is not synonymous with “anticline”. It is
desirable to use the same adjective for analogous geological features, so we
use the term growth structure to embrace all structures that affected the
accumulation
of sediment in them; and for specific structures, we use the specific
terms growth fault, growth anticline and growth syncline.