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graben
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- Etymology
- Formation
- Half-graben
- Examples
- Africa
- Antarctica
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- United States
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- Oceania
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thumb|upright=1.35|Diagram illustrating the structural relationship between grabens and horsts upright=1.35|thumb|Infrared-enhanced satellite image of a graben in the Afar Triangle|Afar Depression
In geology, a graben () is a depressed block of the crust of a planet or moon, bordered by parallel normal faults.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “graben” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.