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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 740 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HORST , the See also:

term used in See also:physical See also:geography and See also:geology for a See also:block of the See also:earth's crust that has remained stationary while the See also:land has sunk on either See also:side of it, or has been crushed in a See also:mountain range against it. The See also:Vosges and See also:Black See also:Forest are examples of the former, the Table, See also:Jura and the D61e of the latter result. The word is also applied to those larger areas, such as the See also:Russian See also:plain, See also:Arabia, See also:India and Central See also:South See also:Africa, where the See also:continent remains See also:stable, with See also:horizontal table-land stratification, in distinction to folded regions such as the See also:Eurasian chains.

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