A structural basin is a large-scale structural formation of rock strata formed by tectonic warping (folding) of previously flat-lying strata into a syncline...
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by northwest trending offshore ridges and basins. The Los Angeles Basin is notable for its great structural relief and complexity in relation to its geologic...
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The Powder River Basin is a geologic structural basin in southeast Montana and northeast Wyoming, about 120 miles (190 km) east to west and 200 miles (320 km)...
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The Pannonian Basin, with the term Carpathian Basin being sometimes preferred in Hungarian literature, is a large sedimentary basin situated in southeastern...
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at its peak detained over 10,000 internees. The Bighorn Basin forms a geologic structural basin filled with more than 20,000 feet (6,100 m) of sedimentary...
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The Delaware Basin is a geologic depositional and structural basin in West Texas and southern New Mexico, famous for holding large oil fields and for...
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geology, a basin is a region where subsidence generates accommodation space for the deposition of sediments. A pull-apart basin is a structural basin where...
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The San Juan Basin is a geologic structural basin located near the Four Corners region of the Southwestern United States. The basin covers 7,500 square...
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The Anadarko Basin is a geologic depositional and structural basin centered in the western part of the state of Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle, and...
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A foreland basin is a structural basin that develops adjacent and parallel to a mountain belt. Foreland basins form because the immense mass created by...
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stratigraphy of a sedimentary basin, particularly if used in conjunction with seismic stratigraphy. Structural basin – Large-scale structural geological depression...
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is also a geologic structural basin in eastern Utah, east of the Wasatch Mountains and south of the Uinta Mountains. The Uinta Basin is fed by creeks and...
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The Piceance Basin is a geologic structural basin in northwestern Colorado, in the United States. It includes geologic formations from Cambrian to Holocene...
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higher areas Structural basin, rock strata formed by tectonic warping of previously flat-lying strata Oceanic basin, a structural basin covered by seawater...
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Depression (geology) (redirect from Basin (geology))
sediment further depresses the floor of the basin. Structural or tectonic-related: Structural basin: a syncline-like depression; a region of tectonic downwarping...
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Basin, variously referred to as the Julesburg Basin, Denver-Julesburg Basin (after Julesburg, Colorado), or the D-J Basin, is a geologic structural basin...
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The Wilkes Basin is a large subglacial basin situated generally southward of George V Coast and westward of Prince Albert Mountains in East Antarctica...
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The Albuquerque Basin (or Middle Rio Grande Basin) is a structural basin and ecoregion within the Rio Grande rift in central New Mexico. It contains the...
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The Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) underlies 1.4 million square kilometres (540,000 sq mi) of Western Canada including southwestern Manitoba...
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a complex and diverse undersea relief. The floor is formed into a structural basin by a series of geologic faults and fracture zones. Island arcs, which...
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The Třeboň Basin (Czech: Třeboňská pánev) is a structural basin and geomorphological mesoregion of the Czech Republic. It is located in the South Bohemian...
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known for its rich deposits of petroleum and potash. The basin is a geologic structural basin but not a topographic depression; it is transected by the...
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Jhelum which cuts through the Pir Pinjal at the Baramullah gap. This structural basin is 135 km in length with a maximum width of 40 km and ranges in altitude...
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The Pranhita–Godavari Basin is a northwest–southeast striking geological structural basin (rift basin) in central India. The basin contains up to 7 kilometres...
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The Illinois Basin is a Paleozoic depositional and structural basin in the United States, centered in and underlying most of the state of Illinois, and...
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The Tularosa Basin is a graben basin in the Basin and Range Province and within the Chihuahuan Desert, east of the Rio Grande in southern New Mexico and...
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Mancos Shale (section Structural basins)
different structural basins that often intertongue with other formations. The subunits and intertonguing formations (in italics) in each basin, in stratigraphic...
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Dzungaria (redirect from Junggar Basin semi-desert)
wild camels, jerboas, and other wild species. The Dzungarian Basin is a structural basin with thick sequences of Paleozoic-Pleistocene rocks with large...
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Syncline (category Structural geology)
a synclinal basin in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia Anticline Homocline Monocline Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians Structural basin Synclinorium...
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Aurora Subglacial Basin is a large subglacial basin of Wilkes Land to the west of Dome Charlie and trending northwest toward the coast in the vicinity...
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