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thumb|upright=1.35|Diagram illustrating the structural relationship between grabens and horsts upright=1.35|thumb|Infrared-enhanced satellite image of a graben in the Afar Triangle|Afar Depression

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  • Etymology
  • Formation
  • Half-graben
  • Examples
  • Africa
  • Antarctica
  • Asia
  • Europe
  • North America
  • Canada
  • Guatemala
  • United States
  • Multi-national
  • Oceania
  • South America
  • See also
  • Notes
  • References

thumb|upright=1.35|Diagram illustrating the structural relationship between grabens and horsts upright=1.35|thumb|Infrared-enhanced satellite image of a graben in the Afar Triangle|Afar Depression

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

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