The Columbia, Colorado, and Mississippi watersheds meet at Three Waters Mountain in the Wind River Range of To the south, in Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming, the Columbia watershed is divided from the Great Basin, whose several watersheds are endorheic, not emptying into any ocean but rather drying up or sinking into sumps.

Nevada is almost entirely within the Basin and Range Province, and is broken up by many north-south mountain ranges.

Image: Basin and Range Nevada. JPG | Basin and Range scenery near Rachel.

Iceland, Lipari, Hungary, the Basin and Range of the American southwest, and New Zealand are among the areas where such tuffs are prominent.

Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, a U. S. Department of Energy terminal storage facility for spent nuclear reactor and other radioactive waste, is in tuff and ignimbrite in the Basin and Range Province in Nevada.

Later the crust started to pull apart, creating the current Basin and Range landform.

These and adjacent valleys follow the general trend of Basin and Range topography with one modification: there are parallel strike-slip faults that perpendicularly bound the central extent of Death Valley.

They claimed the area known as the Bighorn Basin, from the Bighorn Mountains in the east to the Absaroka Range to the west, and south to the Wind River Range in northern Wyoming.

The Warrego and Maranoa lie inland of the Great Dividing Range on the northern boundary of the Murray-Darling Basin.

They are, from north to south, the Klamath Mountains, the Cascade Range, the Modoc Plateau, the Basin and Range, the Coast Ranges, the Central Valley, the Sierra Nevada, the Transverse Ranges, the Mojave Desert, the Peninsular Ranges, and the Colorado Desert.

To the east of the Sierra is the Basin and Range geological province, which extends into Nevada.

The Basin and Range is a series of mountains and valleys ( specifically horsts and grabens ), caused by the extension of the Earth's crust.

One notable feature of the Basin and Range is Mono Lake, which is the oldest lake in North America.

The Basin and Range also contains the Owens Valley, the deepest valley in North America ( more than 10, 000 feet ( 3 km ) deep, as measured from the top of Mount Whitney ).

This style is chiefly the San Andreas Fault, but also includes a possible driver for the deformation of the Basin and Range, separation of Baja California, and rotation of the Transverse Range.

In the north, the Kunlun Range separates Aksai Chin from the Tarim Basin, where the rest of Hotan County is situated.

Raton Pass and the Raton Basin are also named for the Raton Range.

Wenatchee is located at ( 47. 423316 ,-120. 325279 ) at the confluence of the Wenatchee and Columbia rivers in the Columbia Basin, just east of the foothills of the Cascade Range.

Honolulu: Pacific Basin Enterprises, 1981, first edition 1977.

In 1984 Ernest Preeg, U. S. ambassador to Haiti ( 1981 – 1983 ), wrote a monograph on Haiti's part in the Reagan Caribbean Basin Initiative.

1981 ) was found in Puercan ( Lower Paleocene ) San Juan Basin of New Mexico and Utah ( USA ).

* Sloan ( 1981 ), " Systematics of Paleocene multituberculates from the San Juan Basin, New Mexico ," p. 127-160, in Lucas et al.

* Sloan ( 1981 ), " Systematics of Paleocene multituberculates from the San Juan Basin, New Mexico ", p. 127-160, in Lucas et al.

* Sloan ( 1981 ), Systematics of Paleocene multituberculates from the San Juan Basin, New Mexico, p. 127-160, in Lucas et al.

* Sloan ( 1981 ), " Systematics of Paleocene multituberculates from the San Juan Basin, New Mexico ," pp. 127 – 160, in Lucas et al.

In 1981 the Montrose Basin Nature Reserve was created.

One of the first uses of " deep time " in a general interest publication may have been by John McPhee in his 1981 book, Basin and Range, parts of which originally appeared in The New Yorker magazine.

In John McPhee's 1981 book Basin and Range, about the origin of Basin and Range topography, Deffeyes teaches geology to McPhee and his readers by analyzing road cuts and the exposed geologic strata that resulted from the construction of Interstate highway 80.

* John McPhee, Basin and Range, 1981 ( Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York ).

Acquired in 1981 by the London Docklands Development Corporation ( LDDC ), redevelopment of Shadwell Basin took place in 1987 resulting in 169 houses and flats being built around the retained historic dock.

Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900 ; University of Illinois Press ; ISBN 0-252-02972-0 ( 1958 ; Hardcover, October 2004 ).

* Barritt, S., ( 2000 ) The Old Tramroad-Walton Summit to Preston Basin, Carnegie Publishing, ISBN 1-85936-058-0

* Sierra East: Edge of the Great Basin by Genny Smith, Diana Tomback, Ann Howald, ISBN 0-520-23914-8, 2000

* Imperial Power and Regional Trade: The Caribbean Basin Initiative, co-edited with David Cox and Colin Leys, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1993, ISBN 0-88920-220-6

* Territory, Time and State: The Archaeological Development of the Gubbio Basin ( October 1994 ), edited by Simon Stoddart and Caroline Malone, 244 pp with 62 line diagrams, 9 half-tones, 21 tables and 36 maps, published by Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-35568-1

But she does indicate festivities will start early, that a jazz combo will `` give with the Basin Street beat '' during the cocktail and dinner hours and that Lester Lanin's orchestra will take over during the dancing.

The family Plethodontidae are also found in Central and South America north of the Amazon Basin.

Structures and other evidence of Ancient Pueblo culture has been found extending east onto the American Great Plains, in areas near the Cimarron and Pecos rivers and in the Galisteo Basin.

The peoples of the Tarim Basin in northern China are now known to be Caucasian and there were widespread attempts to keep western archeologists from testing samples such as deliberately replacing the mummies or decapitating them, even defacing ancient cave painting depictions of these people with large amounts of body hair and features such as red colored hair and blue eyes.

He had a lasting effect on Italy and the Pannonian Basin ; in the former his invasion marked the beginning of centuries of Lombard rule, and in the latter his defeat of the Gepids and his departure from Pannonia ended the dominance there of the Germanic peoples.

The war also marked a watershed in the geo-political history of the region, as together with the Lombard migration the following year, it signalled the end of six centuries of Germanic dominance in the Pannonian Basin.

The valley measures approximately 126 km in length from Digby and the Annapolis Basin in the west to Wolfville and the Minas Basin in the east, spanning the counties of Digby, Annapolis and Kings.

Within the valley itself are two " major " rivers, the Annapolis River which flows west from the Caribou Bog in the central part of the valley into the Annapolis Basin, and the Cornwallis River which flows east from Caribou Bog into the Minas Basin.

Also flowing east, in two smaller valleys north of the Cornwallis River, are the Canard River and the Habitant River, both of which also flow into the Minas Basin.

Several public interest groups, including the Coordinating Body of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin ( COICA ) and the Coalition for Amazonian Peoples and Their Environment ( Amazon Coalition ) objected.

Oil and gas are extracted in the Cooper Basin around Moomba.

The Bahamas is a beneficiary of the U. S .- Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act ( CBTPA ), Canada's CARIBCAN program, and the European Union's Lome IV Agreement.

He collected first in the Carpathian Basin ( the then-Kingdom of Hungary ), where he notated Hungarian, Slovakian, Romanian and Bulgarian folk music.

" " One Star Rag ," " Rat Cheese under the Hill ," " Take Me Back to Tulsa ," " Basin Street Blues ," " Steel Guitar Rag ," and " Trouble in Mind " were some of the songs in his extensive repertory.

The manager of a popular auditorium in the LA Basin town of Wilmington, California: " Although Monday night dancing is frankly an experiment it was the only night of the week on which this outstanding band could be secured.

This may exemplify a rare example of insular dwarfing in a mainland context, with the " islands " being formed by the extensive river networks in the Amazon Basin, which form effective biogeographic barriers.

The second noteworthy characteristic is that the country borders on very different parts of the African continent: North Africa, with its Islamic culture and economic orientation toward the Mediterranean Basin ; West Africa, with its diverse religions and cultures and its history of highly developed states and regional economies ; Northeast Africa, oriented toward the Nile Valley and Red Sea region ; and Central or Equatorial Africa, some of whose people have retained classical African religions while others have adopted Christianity, and whose economies were part of the great Congo River system.

Although Chadian society is economically, socially, and culturally fragmented, the country's geography is unified by the Lake Chad Basin.

South of the Chadian border, the koros divide the Lake Chad Basin from the Ubangi-Zaire river system.

The Lake Chad Basin embraces a great range of tropical climates from north to south, although most of these climates tend to be dry.

Chad has been an active champion of regional cooperation through the Central African Economic and Customs Union, the Lake Chad and Niger River Basin Commissions, and the Interstate Commission for the Fight Against the Drought in the Sahel.

The term Columbia Basin is used to refer not only to the entire drainage basin but also to subsets of the river's full watershed, such as the relatively flat and unforested area in eastern Washington bounded by the Cascades, the Rocky Mountains, and the Blue Mountains.