horst

5 letters · noun · scores 800 in SpellHuntr

noun

a ridge of the earth's crust that has been forced upward between two faults and so is higher than the surrounding land

Horst in a sentence

The classic example has been the Rhine Valley graben with the Vosges Mountains and the Schwarzwald as adjacent horsts.

Your body is a horst and mine a graben, because horst is the opposite of graben.

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