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• A normally faulted elongate trough or block of rock
• A downthrown block between two normal faults of parallel strike but converging dips
• In geology, a graben is a depressed block of land bordered by parallel faults
• A long, relatively depressed crustal unit or block that is bounded by faults along its sides
• An elongate fault block that has been lowered in relation to the blocks on either side
• An elongate crustal block that is relatively depressed (downdropped) between two fault systems
• An elongated, relatively depressed crustal unit or block that is bounded by faults on its sides
• A topographic valley, created by motions along faults at the edges of the valley (see Fig
• Credit: US Geological Survey A long, relatively narrow area of rock that has slid down between parallel faults
• A block of rock that lies between two faults and has moved downward to form a depression between the two adjacent fault blocks

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