piedmont basin

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• Piedmont Park — Infobox nrhp | name =Piedmont Park nrhp type = caption =Piedmont Park. location= Atlanta, Georgia area = built =1895 architect= Joseph Forsyth Johnson;John Charles Olmsted; Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.; added = May 13, 1976 governing body = Local… …   Wikipedia

• piedmont slope —    (colloquial: western USA)    The dominant gentle slope at the foot of a mountain; generally used in terms of intermontane basin terrain in arid to subhumid regions.    Main components include:    1) An erosional surface on bedrock adjacent to… …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms

• basin floor —    A general term for the nearly level, lower most part of intermontane basins (i.e., bolsons, semi bolsons). The floor includes all of the alluvial, eolian, and erosional landforms below the piedmont slope.    Compare: basin, piedmont slope.… …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms

• basin —     a) Drainage basin.     b) A low area in the Earth s crust, of tectonic origin, in which sediments have accumulated.    GG.     c) (colloquial: western USA) A general term for the nearly level to gently sloping, bottom surface of an… …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms

• Northern Basin and Range ecoregion — This article is about the ecoregion designated by the EPA. For the associated geographical feature, see Great Basin. Level III ecoregions in the Pacific Northwest. The Northern Basin and Range (80) borders the Sierra Nevada (5), Eastern Cascades… …   Wikipedia

• Geography of Piedmont — The Geography of Piedmont is that of a territory predominantly mountainous, 43.3%, but with extensive areas of hills which represent 30.3% of the territory, and of plains (26.4%).To the north and to the west Piedmont is surrounded by the Alps, to …   Wikipedia

• Franco-Provençal language — language name=Franco Provençal, Arpitan nativename=patouès, arpetan pronunciation=/patuˈe/ /patuˈɑ/ states=flag|Italy flag|France flag|Switzerland region=Valle d Aosta, Piedmont, Foggia, Franche Comté, Savoie, Bresse, Bugey, Dombes, Beaujolais,… …   Wikipedia

• Lago della Meja — Location Province of Cuneo, Piedmont Basin countries Italy Surface elevation 2455 m …   Wikipedia

• предгорный бассейн — — [http://slovarionline.ru/anglo russkiy slovar neftegazovoy promyishlennosti/] Тематики нефтегазовая промышленность EN piedmont basin …   Справочник технического переводчика

• Divisions of the Carpathians — Map of the main divisions of the Carpathians. 1. Outer Western Carpathians 2. Inner Western Carpathians 3. Outer Eastern Carpathians 4. Inner Eastern Carpathians 5. Southern Carpathians 6. Western Romanian Carpathians 7. Transylvanian Plateau 8.… …   Wikipedia

• United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …   Universalium