/hɔːst/
OriginFrom German Horst (“heap”).
- A block of the Earth's crust, bounded by faults, that has been raised relative to the surrounding area.
“The classic example has been the Rhine Valley graben with the Vosges Mountains and the Schwarzwald as adjacent horsts.”
“1963, F. Geukens, S. D. Bowers (translator), Geology of the Arabian Peninsula: Yemen, U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 560-B, page B19,
Innumerable faults, in fact, cut through the country, ”
“Your body is a horst and mine a graben, because horst is the opposite of graben.”
Formshorsts(plural) · Horsts(plural)
Source: Wiktionary