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 (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old High German graban, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *grabaną, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *gʰrābʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Cognate with English grave (“to dig”).
Compare Serbo-Croatian grȍb and groblje (“grave”), German Grab (“grave”), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Czech and (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Slovak hrob (“grave”), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Polish grób (“grave”).
Pronunciation
Verb
- (transitive or intransitive) to dig
- (transitive, intransitive or reflexive, of an animal) to burrow
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- “graben” in Duden online
Spanish
Verb
graben
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