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graben


graben [grah-buh n] EXAMPLES|WORD ORIGIN noun a portion of the earth’s crust, bounded on at least two sides by faults, that has dropped downward in relation to adjacent portions. Liberaldictionary.com

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  • Compare horst. Origin of graben 1895–1900; German: ditchAlso called rift valley. Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for graben Contemporary Examples of graben

  • Trotsky, Stalin, and Hitler were all in Vienna in 1913, so maybe they did pass within 10 feet of each other walking down Graben.

    William Boyd on James Bond and His New Novel, Waiting for Sunrise

    Lucy Scholes

    April 19, 2012

  • Historical Examples of graben

  • It is no moat, no Graben, that is now being dug, but a grave—a Grab.

    The Faust-Legend and Goethe’s ‘Faust’

    H. B. Cotterill

  • The depression is probably a “Graben” or trough formed by faulting.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6

    Various

  • The beautiful “Graben” and Horse-market once more excited my admiration.

    Visit to Iceland

    Ida Pfeiffer

  • Cannon were in position on the Stephan’s Platz and the Graben, and the gunners stood ready, as if on parade.

    The Daltons, Volume II (of II)

    Charles James Lever

  • Every one seemed as joyous and carefree as on the Graben in Vienna on a sunny spring Sunday in times of undisturbed peace.

    Men in War

    Andreas Latzko

  • British Dictionary definitions for graben graben noun an elongated trough of land produced by subsidence of the earth’s crust between two faults Word Origin for graben C19: from German, from Old High German graban to dig Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 graben in Science graben [grä′bən] A usually elongated block of rock that is bounded by parallel geologic faults along its two longest sides, and has a lower elevation than the rock at its sides. Grabens form where rock is being pulled apart by tectonic forces. The East African Rift Valley is a graben. The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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