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    The Basin and Range Province is a vast physiographic region covering much of the inland Western United States and northwestern Mexico. It is defined by...
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    Basin and range topography is characterized by alternating parallel mountain ranges and valleys. It is a result of crustal extension due to mantle upwelling...
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    The Great Basin Desert is part of the Great Basin between the Sierra Nevada and the Wasatch Range. The desert is a geographical region that largely overlaps...
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    Great Basin physiographic section is a geographic division of the Basin and Range Province defined by Nevin Fenneman in 1931. The United States Geological...
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  • Basin and Range may refer to: Basin and Range Province, physiographic province of the United States west of the Rocky Mountains Basin and range topography...
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    the Columbia Plateau in the north, the Basin and Range Province in the central and southwestern portions, and the Colorado Plateau in the southeast. In...
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    north–south-trending valleys and mountain ranges: the beginning of the Basin and Range province. Less than five million years ago, the range that we now know as...
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    Basin and Range National Monument is a national monument of the United States spanning approximately 704,000 acres (1,100 sq mi; 2,800 km2) of remote...
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    Powell Basin and Range Province lies east of the Coast Ranges and west of the Rockies. There are no active glaciers in the Basin and Range Province and Wheeler...
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  • the Basin and Range Province include Basin and Range eruptions in Utah, California, Idaho, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, Nevada, Wyoming and Oregon...
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    and adjacent to the Basin and Range Province (in the south) and Columbia Plateau Province (in the north). The Cascade-Sierra province stretches approximately...
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    by area List of ecoregions in the United States (EPA) (the Sonoran Basin and Range is item 81 on the map) List of ecoregions in the United States (WWF)...
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    region between the Sierra Nevada and the Wasatch Mountains. Topographically, this area is known as the Basin and Range Province. The park is located about 290...
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    into two major physiographic regions: the Colorado Plateau and the Basin and Range Province, and a transitioning zone between the two called the Transition...
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    lake was a source of water for the Sierra Nevada and in lesser measure for the Basin and Range Province behind it. This contributed to the formation of...
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    and central Utah. It is also bounded by the Rio Grande rift, Mogollon Rim, and the Basin and Range Province (at the Hurricane Fault). Isolated ranges...
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    Basin and Range Province of the Western United States was previously a high plateau within the American Cordillera, which has since been extended and...
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    modified by extension to become the Basin and Range Province. The Laramide orogeny produced intermontane structural basins and adjacent mountain blocks by means...
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    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 West...
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    Sierra Nevada, the Great Basin mountain ranges, and other ranges and various plateaus and basins. The Pacific Coast Ranges designation, however, only...
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    Plateau was uplifted an estimated 2 miles (3.2 km). The adjacent Basin and Range Province to the west started to form about 18 million years ago as the result...
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    The Northern Basin and Range ecoregion is a Level III ecoregion designated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the U.S. states...
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    Mexican Plateau (category Basin and Range Province)
    Altiplano is one of six distinct physiographic sections of the Basin and Range Province, which in turn is part of the Intermontane Plateaus physiographic...
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    North American Cordillera (category Mountain ranges of North America)
    Coast Ranges, the Central Valley, the Sierra Nevada, the Basin and Range Province (forming many narrow ranges and valleys), the Colorado Plateau, and the...
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    two, the Great Basin, which is the northern region of the Basin and Range Province, begins and stretches westward across western Utah and Nevada until it...
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  • Basin Province may refer to: The Great Basin, a region of the Western United States where rivers do not flow to the sea; The Basin and Range Province...
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  • America: the Basin and Range Province, Cascade Range, Colorado Plateau, Rio Grande rift, Great Basin, Central Valley (California), Peninsular Ranges, Los Angeles...
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    Interior Lowlands, Great Plains, and Basin and Range Province. This has been cited as the difference between human geography and physical geography, although...
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    this event. The Sevier Fold and Thrust Belt extends from southern California near the Mexican border to Canada. Basin and Range faults cut the older Sevier...
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    25 specimens of Ichthyosaur. Mountain ranges of Nevada Great Basin Basin and Range Province "West Humboldt Range". Geographic Names Information System...
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