structural basin

Structural basins are often important sources of coal, petroleum, and groundwater.

The transition has several large structural basins and block-faulted ranges.

It is both a topographic drainage and geologic structural basin.

Between these two ranges a large structural basin was created which now forms the high plateau of the Altiplano.

The floor is formed into a structural basin by a series of geologic faults and fracture zones.

Some elongated structural basins are also known as synclines.

Dominated by canyons (as the name implies) this section has four large upwarps between which are structural basins.

Dunning Cove itself is a structural basin.

Structural basins are geological depressions, and are the inverse of domes.

The valley floor is underlain by Paleozoic and Mesozoic sedimentary rocks that form a structural basin.

The Laramide orogeny produced intermontane structural basins and adjacent mountain blocks by means of deformation.

The Uintah Basin forms a geologic structural basin, and is the source of commercial oil and gas production.

The San Juan structural basin is a large downwarp of sedimentary rocks of mostly Mesozoic age.

A province may include a single dominant structural element such as a structural basin or a fold belt, or a number of contiguous related elements.

The basin is a geologic structural basin but not a topographic depression; it is transected by the Missouri River.

Geologically the basin is a structural basin that is bordered to the west by the frontal fault of the Sierra Nevada.

The Raton Basin is a geologic structural basin in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico.

The Piceance Basin is a geologic structural basin in northwestern Colorado, in the United States.

The formation reaches its greatest thickness in the Sublett Range in the Paleozoic cordilleran structural basin of southern Idaho.

The Dzungarian Basin is a structural basin with thick sequences of Paleozoic-Pleistocene rocks with large estimated oil reserves.

A structural basin is a large-scale structural formation of rock strata formed by tectonic warping of previously flat lying strata.

The Illinois Basin is a northwest-southeast asymmetrical structural basin that is filled with more than 4000 meters of Paleozoic sedimentary rocks.

It is also a geologic structural basin in eastern Utah, east of the Wasatch Mountains and south of the Uinta Mountains.

Drainage in the structural basin is general westward from the Continental Divide of the Americas to the Mancos River's confluence with the San Juan River.

The Azawagh refers to the dry structural basin, which once carried a northern tributary of the Niger river, the Azawagh river, known as Dallol Bosso further south.