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bən noun
a portion of the earth's crust, bounded on at least two sides by faults, that has dropped downward in relation to adjacent portions.
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| —n | |
| an elongated trough of land produced by subsidence of the earth's crust between two faults | |
| [C19: from German, from Old High German graban to dig] | |
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Science Dictionary
| graben (grä'bən) Pronunciation Key
A usually elongated block of rock that is bounded by parallel geologic faults along its two longest sides, and has a lower elevation than the rock at its sides. Grabens form where rock is being pulled apart by tectonic forces. The East African Rift Valley is a graben. |
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Example sentences
The half graben may have developed as a pull-apart basin or by block rotation in a strike-slip fault or oblique subduction system.
The low area between the outermost caldera rim fault and the next fault is a graben.
The south wing of the building, shown here, collapsed into a graben at the head of the landslide.
Shield-stage lavas filled the caldera and the graben with thick, ponded flows.
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