basin sediments

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• Basin — may mean:* Drainage basin, hydrological basin or catchment basin, a region of land where water drains downhill into a specified body of water * Tarim Basin, located in Xinjiang, China and is one of the largest drainage basins in the world. *… …   Wikipedia

• Basin F — was constructed by the United States Army in 1956 at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, to provide for the disposal of contaminated liquid wastes from the chemical manufacturing operations of the Army and its lessee Shell Chemical Company. As originally …   Wikipedia

• 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

• basin — 1) that part of a watershed that slopes towards a common low lying area where all surface and subsurface water drains, i.e. an area drained by a river and its tributaries 2) a vessel less deep than wide as used in aquaculture for holding fishes… …   Dictionary of ichthyology

• Foreland basin — basins, where accommodation space is generated by lithospheric extension. Types of Foreland BasinForeland basins can be divided into two categories: * Peripheral (Pro) foreland basins, which occur on the plate that is subducted or underthrust… …   Wikipedia

• Perth Basin — The Perth Basin is a thick sedimentary basin in Western Australia. It lies beneath the Swan Coastal Plain west of the Darling Scarp, representing the western limit of the much older Yilgarn Craton, and extends further west offshore. Cities and… …   Wikipedia

• Permian Basin — ▪ area, Texas, United States also called  West Texas Basin   large sedimentary basin in western Texas and southeastern New Mexico, U.S., noted for its rich petroleum, natural gas, and potassium deposits. Due to its economic importance, it is one… …   Universalium

• Newark Basin — The Newark Basin is a sediment filled rift basin located mainly in northern New Jersey but also stretching into south eastern Pennsylvania and southern New York. It is part of the system of Eastern North America Rift Basins. Geology A USGS… …   Wikipedia

• Cyclic sediments — (also called rhythmic sediments[1]) are sequences of sedimentary rocks that are characterised by repetitive patterns of different rock types (strata) within the sequence. Cyclic sediments can be identified as either autocyclic or allocyclic, and… …   Wikipedia

• Oceanic basin — Diagrammatic cross section of an ocean basin, showing the various geographic features Hydrologically, an oceanic basin may be anywhere on Earth that is covered by seawater, but geologically ocean basins are large geologic basins that are below… …   Wikipedia

• Molasse basin — Geology of the Alps Tectonic subdivision Helvetic Zone Penninic nappes …   Wikipedia