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horst

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Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
7
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/hɔːst/

Definition of horst

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A block of the Earth's crust, bounded by faults, that has been raised relative to the surrounding area.
    “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.”
    “Your body is a horst and mine a graben, because horst is the opposite of graben.”
    “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.”
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noun

  1. A block of the Earth's crust, bounded by faults, that has been raised relative to the surrounding area.
    “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.”
    “Your body is a horst and mine a graben, because horst is the opposite of graben.”
    “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.”

name

  1. A surname.

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Etymology

From German Horst (“heap”). Doublet of hurst.

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