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horst
English - Turkish
Definition of
horst
in English Turkish dictionary
horst
Turkish - Turkish
Definition of
horst
in Turkish Turkish dictionary
(Osmanlı Dönemi)
Alm. Jeo: Bir çukur veya hendeğin, tersine, faylar arasında yükselmiş kesimi
Kırılmaya uğrayan yer katmanının yüksekte kalan kısmı
Çöküntü hendeğinin yanındaki çıkıntılar
English - English
Definition of
horst
in English English dictionary
an area of the earth's surface which is raised relative to surrounding land
Your body is a horst and mine a graben, because horst is the opposite of graben.
A block of rock that lies between two faults and has moved upward relative to the two adjacent fault blocks See also graben
An elongate fault block that has been uplifted in relation to the adjacent rocks
n. A mass of the earth's crust that lies between two faults and is higher than the surrounding land
a ridge of the earth's crust that has been forced upward between two faults and so is higher than the surrounding land
an area of the earths surface which is raised relative to surrounding land
n a large block of crust uplifted along a normal fault in an area of extensional stress forming a mountain; found in conjunction with grabens (horst and graben systems are characteristic of extensional stresses)
an up-faulted block of rock
{i}
male first name (German)
a block of rock thrown up between normal faults
An upthrown block lying between two steep-angled fault blocks See also graben
An upthrown block between two faults
Related Terms
Horst
Stromer
{i}
(born 1949) Physicist from Columbia University (in the USA), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1998
Turkish - English
Definition of
horst
in Turkish English dictionary
(Coğrafya)
sunken block
horst
rift block
horst
Turkish pronunciation
hôrst
Antonyms
graben
Pronunciation
/ˈhôrst/ /ˈhɔːrst/
Etymology
[ 'horst ] (noun.) 1893. German Horst ‘heap’.
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