Horst

Quick meaning: Horst is a noun meaning (geology) A block of the Earth's crust, bounded by faults, that has been raised relative to the surrounding area.

Meaning

(geology) A block of the Earth's crust, bounded by faults, that has been raised relative to the surrounding area.

Example Sentences

Your body is a horst and mine a graben, because horst is the opposite of graben.

The classic example has been the Rhine Valley graben with the Vosges Mountains and the Schwarzwald as adjacent horsts.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• horsts

Antonyms for horst

Common opposites include graben.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hurst, dieter, highlands, highland, head, hillscape.

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