Graben", of German origin, is a term applied to a rift valley or a fault trough."

A river flowed along the middle of the broad valley floor of the fault trough protected by the high parallel sides of the cracked massif.

Once within the Leichhardt River Fault Trough, this sense of structuring flips to east vergent.

Through the fault troughs run the little Jamuna, Atrai and Lower Punarbhaba rivers.

These types of sediments are typically formed during orogenic deformation; for example, the arkose detrital sedimentary rock found in fault troughs.

E-W Trending Synforms in the Leichhardt River Fault Trough.

Geometry and structural evolution of the Leichhardt River Fault Trough, Mount Isa terrain, Australia.

The St. Lawrence Lowlands represent a fault trough bordered by the Logan Fault to the south and a fault zone to the north.

E-W vertical cross-sections through the Leichhardt River Fault Trough illustrating the overall fold and fault geometries.

N-S extension within the Leichhardt River Fault Trough ceased during the deposition of the Lochness Formation.

The East Hesse Depression is one of two fault troughs trending from north-northeast to south-southwest in the state of Hesse, Germany.

All faults imaged within the Leichhardt River Fault Trough dip west to within the middle to upper crust (see MacCready et al., this volume).

Mount Isa Fault Zone between the Lawn Hill Platform and the Leichhardt River Fault Trough.

Drilling by BGS has confirmed the presence of concealed Coal Measures, probably in a faulted trough, in the west of the Hinckley Basin.

Geology of the Lake Julius syncline and the implications for correlating structures within the Leichhardt River Fault Trough, Mount Isa, Australia.

Over 300 kilometers long, it is thought to have been formed when a section of the Moon's crust sank down between two parallel fault lines (making it a graben or fault trough).

Extensional geometries within the Leichhardt River Fault Trough of the Mount Isa Terrain, NW Queensland, Australia.

Following the development of the Leichhardt Rift, the Leichhardt River Fault Trough underwent a renewed period of basaltic volcanism and clastic sedimentation during a period of N-S extension.

Noteworthy are the irrigated crop-farms along the coast; the crops are also supplied with water from two nearby reservoirs; and mainly from the Bay of Algeciras in the South of the fault trough (lower right).

In this paper I present results from studies in the Leichhardt River Fault Trough of the Mount Isa Inlier (Fig. 1), documenting multiple episodes of continental extension with different stretching directions.

They comprise a line of hill ranges in the west, running north-northeast to south-southwest on the shoulder of the Rhenish Massif and including the Kellerwald, and a fault trough in the east, the West Hesse Depression.

Prior to the Isan Orogeny, the Leichhardt River Fault Trough of the Mount Isa terrain underwent a long and complex extensional history that involved repeated episodes of rifting, post-rift subsidence and associated depositional/magmatic phases.

In the Leichhardt River Fault Trough, strata of the lower Haslingden Group were deposited and extruded within the N-S oriented Leichhardt Rift, during significant phase of continental rifting and inferred E-W extension.