ridge-top trench

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ridge-top trench [′rij ‚täp ‚trench]

(geology)

A trench, occasionally found at or near the crest of high, steep-sided mountain ridges, formed by the creep displacement of a large slab of rock along shear surfaces more or less parallel with the side slope of the ridge.

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