horsts in English
noun
1
a raised elongated block of the earth's crust lying between two faults.
These faults bound horsts , grabens and tilted blocks.
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1. The Early Cretaceous paleogeography of the Maritime Provinces is interpreted to have consisted of fault-bound horsts shedding coarse detritus surrounded by an interconnected series of basins that accumulated fluvial sands and gravels and overbank muds with well-developed paleosols.