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NASA satellite photo of typical Basin and Range topography across central Nevada. The Basin and Range Province includes much of western North America.In the United States, it is bordered on the west by the eastern fault scarp of the Sierra Nevada and spans over 500 miles (800 km) to its eastern border marked by the Wasatch Fault, the Colorado Plateau and the Rio Grande Rift.
Basin and range topography has alternating parallel mountain ranges and valleys Basin and range topography is characterized by alternating parallel mountain ranges and valleys. It is a result of crustal extension due to mantle upwelling , gravitational collapse, crustal thickening, or relaxation of confining stresses.
The Great Basin physiographic section is a geographic division of the Basin and Range Province defined by Nevin Fenneman in 1931. [6] The United States Geological Survey adapted Fenneman's scheme in their Physiographic division of the United States . [ 7 ]
The Great Basin Desert is part of the Great Basin between the Sierra Nevada and the Wasatch Range in the western United States.The desert is a geographical region that largely overlaps the Great Basin shrub steppe defined by the World Wildlife Fund, and the Central Basin and Range ecoregion defined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and United States Geological Survey.
The Basin and Range Province is a series of linear block fault mountains with adjacent sediment-filled downfaulted valleys, having been caused by crustal extension around 17 million years ago. The valley floors are made up of thick sediment deposits which have eroded off the mountains and filled the valleys, so that the region is a regular ...
Basin and range topography, type of topography typical of the Basin and Range Province; Basin and Range National Monument, in Lincoln and Nye counties in southeastern Nevada, within the Basin and Range Province; Basin and Range a book on geology written by John McPhee published in 1981, the first book of what would become the Annals of the ...
The large Basin and Range Province is a basin and range topography resulting from crustal extension (extensional tectonics). It is located in all or parts of Oregon , Idaho , Nevada , California , Utah , New Mexico , Arizona in the Western United States; and Sonora , Chihuahua , Sinaloa , and other states southwards to the Trans-Mexican ...
The oceans drain approximately 83% of the land in the world. The other 17% – an area larger than the basin of the Arctic Ocean – drains to internal endorheic basins. There are also substantial areas of the world that do not "drain" in the commonly understood sense.