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horst
English
Etymology
German Horst (“heap”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /h??st/
Noun
horst (plural horsts)
- (geology) An area of the earth's surface which is raised relative to surrounding land.
- 1927, George Rogers Mansfield, Geography, Geology, and Mineral Resources of Part of Southeastern Idaho, U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 152, page 390,
- The classic example has been the Rhine Valley graben with the Vosges Mountains and the Schwarzwald as adjacent horsts.
- 1963, F. Geukens, S. D. Bowers (translator), Geology of the Arabian Peninsula: Yemen, U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 560-B, page B19,
- Innumerable faults, in fact, cut through the country, many bounding secondary grabens and horsts.
- 1968, Anthony Burgess, Enderby Outside, page 83:
- Your body is a horst and mine a graben, because horst is the opposite of graben.
- 2011, James Petersen, Dorothy Sack, Robert Gabler, Physical Geography, 10th Edition, page 393,
- Horsts and grabens are rock structural features that are identified by the nature of the offset of rock units along normal faults; topographically, horsts form mountain ranges and grabens form basins.
- 1927, George Rogers Mansfield, Geography, Geology, and Mineral Resources of Part of Southeastern Idaho, U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 152, page 390,
Antonyms
- (area of earth's surface raised relative to surrounding land): graben
Translations
Anagrams
- Short, Stohr, hotrs, short, thors, trosh
Dutch
Etymology
Cognate with English horst and German Horst (“horst; eyrie”).
Pronunciation
Noun
horst f (plural horsten, diminutive horstje n)
- (geology) an area of the earth's surface which is raised relative to surrounding land; a horst
- an elevated land overgrown with shrub
- a nest of a bird of prey; an eyrie
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upfault
English
Etymology
up- +? fault
Noun
upfault (plural upfaults)
- (geology) A horst (area raised relative to surrounding land).
Verb
upfault (third-person singular simple present upfaults, present participle upfaulting, simple past and past participle upfaulted)
- (geology) To form a fault that is raised relative to the surrounding land.
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