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    In geology, a depression is a landform sunken or depressed below the surrounding area. Depressions form by various mechanisms. Erosion-related: Blowout:...
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    between 9–12 km. It is composed of several different geologic formations that indicate how this basin could have formed, as well as the regional and large...
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    2019. This sedimentary basin is located in western Texas and southeastern New Mexico. It is named after the Permian geologic period, as it contains some...
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    Atchafalaya Basin has a long relationship with the Mississippi River throughout the Holocene epoch, and the geology of the modern basin is a direct manifestation...
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    The geology of the Appalachians dates back more than 1.2 billion years to the Mesoproterozoic era when two continental cratons collided to form the supercontinent...
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    Bill (2009). Geology of the Great Basin. University of Nevada Press. ISBN 978-0874177909. Plummer; McGeary; Carlson (1999). Physical Geology (Eighth ed...
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    The Paris Basin (French: Bassin parisien) is one of the major geological regions of France. It developed since the Triassic over remnant uplands of the...
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    They are geological depressions, the inverse of domes. Elongated structural basins are a type of geological trough. Some structural basins are sedimentary...
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    The Delaware Basin is a geologic depositional and structural basin in West Texas and southern New Mexico, famous for holding large oil fields and for...
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    The Sudbury Basin (/ˈsʌdbəri/), also known as Sudbury Structure or the Sudbury Nickel Irruptive, is a major geological structure in Ontario, Canada. It...
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