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/hɔːst/ · noun
(geology) A block of the Earth's crust, bounded by faults, that has been raised relative to the surrounding area..
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.
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.
Use horst when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Horst means (geology) A block of the Earth's crust, bounded by faults, that has been raised relative to the surrounding area..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
Possible antonyms include graben.
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.
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