karst basin

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• Karst topography — is a landscape shaped by the dissolution of a layer or layers of soluble bedrock, usually carbonate rock such as limestone or dolomite. Due to subterranean drainage, there may be very limited surface water, even to the absence of all rivers and… …   Wikipedia

• basin, ground-water —    The area throughout which ground water drains towards the same point. It can be larger than the associated drainage basin if permeable layers extend outside of the topographical divide [16]. In karst terranes, the groundwater basin often does… …   Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology

• Bend Arch-Fort Worth Basin — Infobox Oil field name = Bend Arch Fort Worth Basin Province region = North Central Texas country = United States coordinates = locblock = offonshore = Onshore operators = Devon Energy, Chesapeake Energy, EOG Resources, XTO Energy, EnCana, Range …   Wikipedia

• Delaware Basin — Exposed and buried parts of Capitan Reef. Blue area shows area once flooded by the Delaware Sea. The Delaware Basin in West Texas and southern New Mexico is famous for holding large oil fields and for exposing a fossilized reef. Guadalupe… …   Wikipedia

• cone karst —    A variety of kegel karst topography, common in the tropics (e.g., Puerto Rico, Pacific Basin Islands) characterized by steep sided, cone shaped residual hills and ridges separated by star shaped depressions, broader valleys, or lagoons. These… …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms

• Nevada Basin — The Nevada Basin[1] is the Great Basin area surrounded by river basins and, to the east, the Great Salt Lake basin (Pleistocene Lake Bonneville basin). The bounding river basins include those of the following (clockwise from south southeast):… …   Wikipedia

• Kaolin Deposits of Charentes Basin, France — The geological unit called Charentes basin is composed of Eocene and Oligocene deposits, laid above karstic limestone formations of the Campagnien, in the North of the Aquitaine Basin. The kaolin clays of Charentes belong to this mainly… …   Wikipedia

• drainage basin —    The land area from which surface runoff drains into a stream channel or system of stream channels, or to a lake, reservoir, or other body of water [6].    In a karst setting, subsurface drainage (internal drainage) may have boundaries defined… …   Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology

• Royal Spring Park — Infobox nrhp | name =Royal Spring Park nrhp type = nrhp caption = Royal Spring location= Georgetown, Kentucky lat degrees = 38 lat minutes = 12 lat seconds = 37 lat direction = N long degrees = 84 long minutes = 33 long seconds = 33 long… …   Wikipedia

• river — river1 riverless, adj. riverlike, adj. /riv euhr/, n. 1. a natural stream of water of fairly large size flowing in a definite course or channel or series of diverging and converging channels. 2. a similar stream of something other than water: a… …   Universalium

• Neretva — River Picture taken from train between Jablanica and Mostar (Neretva valley) …   Wikipedia