Interior Minister Horst Seehofer told reporters Germany had set the goal of free travel in Europe by mid-June and would open borders with France, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Austria by Saturday.
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Horst
//hɔːst//
Synonyms for "horst"
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7 translations across 6 languages.
Czech
1 entries- hrást noun (raised portion of Earth's surface)
Finnish
1 entries- horsti noun (raised portion of Earth's surface)
German
2 entries- Horst noun (raised portion of Earth's surface)
- Horstscholle noun (raised portion of Earth's surface)
Polish
1 entries- zrąb tektoniczny noun (raised portion of Earth's surface)
Portuguese
1 entries- horst noun (raised portion of Earth's surface)
Spanish
1 entries- macizo tectónico noun (raised portion of Earth's surface)
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The classic example has been the Rhine Valley graben with the Vosges Mountains and the Schwarzwald as adjacent horsts.
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1963, F. Geukens, S. D. Bowers (translator), Geology of the Arabian Peninsula: Yemen, U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 560-B, page B19, Innumerable faults, in fact, cut through the country, many bounding secondary grabens and horsts.
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Your body is a horst and mine a graben, because horst is the opposite of graben.
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