Definitions
a ridge of the earth's crust that has been forced upward between two faults and so is higher than the surrounding land
Word origin
From German Horst (“heap”). Doublet of hurst.
Used in a sentence
“The classic example has been the Rhine Valley graben with the Vosges Mountains and the Schwarzwald as adjacent 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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Fault ridge”5 letters
02“Raised fault block”5 letters
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