Graben
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A graben in geology is a depressed block of the crust of a planet or moon, bordered by parallel normal faults.
The Newark Basin, an early Mesozoic half-graben
Rima Ariadaeus on the Moon is thought to be a graben. The lack of erosion on the Moon makes its structure with two parallel faults and the sunken block in between particularly obvious.
Fault (geology)
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In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movements. Large faults within Earth's crust
Graben
…A graben () in geology is a depressed block of the crust of a planet or moon, bordered by parallel normal faults. Graben is a loan word from German, meaning "ditch" or "trench," up to large valley like Upper Rhine Graben. The first known usage of the word in the…
Hanging wall and footwall
Cross-section diagram of a listric fault
Cross-section diagram of multiple listric faults in a cliff wall
Structure of a fault