noun
Etymology: from the Great Basin, region of the western United States
: a mountain range that owes its present elevation essentially to faulting and tilting : a tilted fault block
noun
Etymology: from the Great Basin, region of the western United States
: a mountain range that owes its present elevation essentially to faulting and tilting : a tilted fault block
Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012