horst
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Is horst a Scrabble word?
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noun (English)
1. (geology) A block of the Earth's crust, bounded by faults, that has been raised relative to the surrounding area.Examples: "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."
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