graben
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1. graben - Noun
2. Graben - Proper noun
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graben (plural grabens or graben)
(geology) An elongated block of the Earth's crust, bounded by faults, that has dropped relative to the surrounding area.
Antonym: horst
Coordinate term: fault
Hyponym: rift valley
Graben
A municipality in Bern canton, Switzerland.
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Geologically, the Lake Ladoga depression is a graben and syncline structure of Proterozoic age ( Precambrian ).
Findings from the Dawn spacecraft have found evidence that the troughs that wrap around Vesta could be graben formed by impact-induced faulting (see Troughs section above), meaning that Vesta has more complex geology than other asteroids.
Subsequent freezing of the ocean after the moons escaped from the resonance may have generated the extensional stresses that created the enormous graben system of Ithaca Chasma on Tethys.
The intervening dropped blocks are termed graben : these can be small or form extensive rift valley systems.
These troughs are thought to be large-scale graben resulting from the impacts that created Rheasilvia and Veneneia craters, respectively.
The troughs may be graben that formed after another asteroid collided with Vesta, a process that can happen only in a body that, like Vesta, is differentiated.