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horst


graben and horst
Credit: US Geological Survey
An area that has been thrust upward between two roughly parallel faults. A horst is found together with a graben in an extensional environment. The graben are the downdropped blocks and the horst are the upthrown blocks that lie next to the graben.

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Source: U.S. Geological Survey


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