Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A usually elongated depression between geologic faults.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In geology, a trough-like area caused by the down-throw of a crustal fault-block.
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- noun geology An
elongated block of theEarth 'scrust that hasdropped relative to the surrounding blocks - noun Plural form of
graben .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Faults like these cause troughs to form, called graben, of which the heavily shadowed one is a good example.
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What the new images show are the existence of "graben," massive valleys crossing the crater in an east-west direction, some up to a mile and a half wide.
FOXNews.com 2010
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They show that the bounding faults of the "graben" cut the Chumstick Formation and that the southwestern bounding fault really is a composed of northwesterly trending reverse faults and younger northerly strike-slip faults, both of which cut northwesterly striking folds in the Chumstick Formation.
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Look closely along the western shore of Fecunditatis where you will see many such graben features.
Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast: March 19-21, 2010 | Universe Today 2010
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Chances are this "little runway" was once a graben that which was flooded with magma.
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This isostatic rebound causes vertical uplift and the tensional forces due to the movement of the crust creates normal and graben faults.
Mountain 2008
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The mountains of western Anatolia extend from east to west and form a horst-graben system with deep furrows created by rivers such as the Edremit, Bakırçay, Gediz, Küçükmenderes and Büyük Menderes.
Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests 2008
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Each block moves vertically to compensate for the tensional forces producing normal and graben faults.
Mountain 2008
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The northern half includes a lower eastern mountain range 800-1,500 m high, nearly cut off by the 15 km wide Sungai Penuh valley graben and is about 75 km wide.
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It covers most of the West Barisan, West Alas and East Barisan ranges and is nearly divided by the Alas valley graben. 40% of the Park, mainly in the north, is steep and over 1,500 m; 12% of the Park only, in the lower southern half, is below 600 m but for 25 km runs along the coast.
super-kawy commented on the word graben
A usually elongated depression between geologic faults.
September 23, 2009