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- noun Plural form of
graben .
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Examples
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Like all maria, it is part of a gigantic basin which is filled with lava, and there is evidence of grabens along the western edge of the basin.
Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast: February 19-21, 2010 | Universe Today 2010
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Stretching out across an area about equal in size to the state of California, the Sea of Fertility's western edge is home to features we share terrestrially – grabens.
Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast: March 19-21, 2010 | Universe Today 2010
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The Rwenzori forms part of several Great Rift Valley features such as lakes (grabens) Albert, George, Edward, Kivu Tanganyika and Malawi, mountains Muhavura and Kilimanjaro, and numerous rivers.
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All three valleys are faultbounded grabens or depressions filled with sediments.
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Lake Turkana occupies the beds of two grabens at the northern end of the Kenyan Great Rift valley in barren desert country.
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The mountain and lake are good examples of the horsts and grabens of the Basin and Range.
Where in the West - January Silver Fox 2008
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Anticlines and horsts are good sites for oil accumulation forming oil reservoirs whereas synclines and grabens are suitable for water accumulation forming aquifers or groundwater basins.
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Theoretically, it should be a smooth ball, but nonlinear processes don't pay much attention to theory, and so we've got rifts, grabens, highlands.
Starfarers Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1998
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Sirenum Fossae is system of grabens, formed by stresses placed on the crust during the uplift of the Tharsis region.
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Sirenum Fossae is a system of grabens, formed by stresses placed on the crust during the uprising of the Tharsis region.
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