horst

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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
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

/ˈhôrst/ /ˈhɔːrst/

[ 'horst ] (noun.) 1893. German Horst ‘heap’.

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