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From a German word for something that is formed by digging. A geology term.
graben
n.
5Ger, a ditch < OHG grabo < graban, to dig: see GRAVE26 a relatively long, narrow area of the earth‘s crust that has subsided between two bordering faults: cf. HORST
A "horst" is an elevation between two faults.
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