Graben

Diagram illustrating the structural relationship between grabens and horsts
Infrared-enhanced satellite image of a graben in the Afar Depression

A graben (/ˈɡrɑːbən/) in geology is a depressed block of the crust of a planet or moon, bordered by parallel normal faults.

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