graben
English
Etymology
Borrowed from German Graben (“ditch”), from the verb graben (“to dig”).
Noun
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
- 1959, Robert G. Yates, George A. Thompson, Geology and Quicksilver Deposits of the Terlingua District, Texas, U. S. Geological Survey, Professional Paper 312, page 49,
- The magnitude and shape of the large grabens strongly suggest that, when they formed, material much more mobile than ordinary rocks was present at a depth no greater than a few miles.
- 1969, V. V. Beloussov, Contintal Rifts, Pembroke J. Hart (editor), The Earth's Crust and Upper Mantle, page 539,
- This system includes the Syrian and Lebanese grabens; the grabens of the Dead Sea, Wadi al Arabah, Gulfs of Aqaba and Suez, Red Sea, and Gulf of Aden; and the Ethiopian graben.
- 1997, Jean-Marie Rouchy, 2: Paleogene Continental Rift System of Western Europe, Georges Busson, B. Charlotte Schreiber (editors), Sedimentary Deposition in Rift and Foreland Basins in France and Spain (Paleogene and Lower Neogene), page 83,
- Migration of the subsidence axis has been revealed by the detailed sedimentological studies in most of these grabens, particularly in the Bresse basin (Curial 1986; Moretto 1986/1987) and in Manosque-Forcalquier.
- 2015, C. F. Burgess, et al., Chapter 35: The Structural and Stratigraphic Evolution of Lake Tanganyika: A Case Study of Continental Rifting, W. Manspeizer (editor), Triassic-Jurassic Rifting: Continental Breakup and the Origin of the Atlantic Ocean and Passive Margins, Part A, page 866,
- These distinct zones of strike-slip or scissor faulting which separate adjacent half-grabens were termed interbasinal ridges and hinged highs by Rosendahl et al. (1986).
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Translations
elongated block of the Earth's crust that has dropped relative to the surrounding blocks
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German
Etymology
From Middle High German graben, from Old High German graban, from Proto-West Germanic *graban. Cognate with English grave (“to dig”).
Compare Serbo-Croatian grȍb and groblje (“grave”), German Grab (“grave”), Czech and Slovak hrob (“grave”), Polish grób (“grave”).
Pronunciation
Verb
graben (class 6 strong, third-person singular present gräbt, past tense grub, past participle gegraben, past subjunctive grübe, auxiliary haben)
- (transitive or intransitive) to dig
- (transitive, intransitive or reflexive, of an animal) to burrow
Conjugation
infinitive | graben | ||||
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present participle | grabend | ||||
past participle | gegraben | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich grabe | wir graben | i | ich grabe | wir graben |
du gräbst | ihr grabt | du grabest | ihr grabet | ||
er gräbt | sie graben | er grabe | sie graben | ||
preterite | ich grub | wir gruben | ii | ich grübe1 | wir grüben1 |
du grubst | ihr grubt | du grübest1 du grübst1 |
ihr grübet1 ihr grübt1 | ||
er grub | sie gruben | er grübe1 | sie grüben1 | ||
imperative | grab (du) grabe (du) |
grabt (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
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Further reading
- “graben” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “graben” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “graben” in Duden online
- “graben” in OpenThesaurus.de
Spanish
Verb
graben
- inflection of grabar:
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