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Keywords: Downthrown, Fault, Crustal, Horst, Elongate

Related Terms: Plateau, Asthenosphere, Fault, Hill, Lineament, Massif, Moho , Mountain, Rift, Slide, Slump, Tectonic, Tectonics, Uplift, Subduction, Subduction Zone, Suture, Horst, Thrust Fault, Transform Fault, Orogenic Belt, Orogeny, Tectonic Plate, Footwall, Hanging Wall, Normal Fault, Reverse Fault, Fault Scarp, Mohorovicic Discontinuity, Rift Valley, Plate, Tectonic Plates, Strike-Slip Fault, Transform Boundary, Faulting, Benioff Zone, Divergent Boundary, Rifting, Thrust , Fault Zone, Rift Zone, Passive Margin, Divergent Plate Boundary, Sag Pond, Nappe, Triple Junction, Bench, Dip Slope, Fault Line

An area between two parallel faults that is lower than that on the other side of the faults.

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A downthrown block between two normal faults of parallel strike but converging dips; hence a tensional feature.

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trench like depression representing the surface of a crustal block dropped down between two opposed blocks

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An elongate crustal block that is relatively depressed (downdropped) between two fault systems.

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