High above the city, near the small town of South Fork, the South Fork Dam was originally built between 1838 and 1853 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as part of a canal system to be used as a reservoir for a canal basin in Johnstown.

Accordingly, highest priority was given to a highlands site that would allow the astronauts to sample material older than the impact that formed the Imbrium basin.

In such pre-industrialized, or poorly developed infrastructure regions, many barges are purpose-designed to be powered on waterways by long slender poles thereby becoming known on American waterways as poleboats as the extensive west of North America was settled using the vast tributary river systems of the Mississippi drainage basin.

In February 1943, his authority was extended as commander of AFHQ across the Mediterranean basin to include the British 8th Army, commanded by General Bernard Law Montgomery.

Paleontological substantiation of this boundary was worked out separately for the siliciclastic basin ( base of the Baltic Stage of the Eastern European Platform ) and for the carbonate basin ( base of the Tommotian Stage of the Siberian Platform ).

The Pannonian basin then was occupied by the Gepids, whilst various Gothic groups remained in the Balkans also.

These areas shared similar climates and geographies, but it was more difficult to spread technologies and crops, such as flax, lentil, peas, barley, and cotton to other portions of the Mediterranean basin.

However, it was a city on the Italian Peninsula, Rome, that would eventually dominate the entire Mediterranean basin.

A naval battle was held on a flooded basin at the Field of Mars.

One of the most spectacular features of Justinian's reign was the recovery of large stretches of land around the Western Mediterranean basin which had slipped out of Imperial control in the 5th century.

The lake basin was carved out of soft, weak Silurian-age rocks by the Wisconsin ice sheet during the last ice age.

At Rome he was employed by Pope Nicholas V in the restoration of the papal palace and of the restoration of the Roman aqueduct of Acqua Vergine, which debouched into a simple basin designed by Alberti, which was swept away later by the Baroque Trevi Fountain.

It appears as though midwifery was treated differently in the Eastern end of the Mediterranean basin as opposed to the West.

The map of the basin area of Meuse was joined to the text of the treaty.

The Mga River then flowed to the east, into Lake Ladoga, near the modern source of the Neva River ; the Mga then was separated from the basin of the Tosna.

" Princeton University archaeologist Jack Finnegan describes additional archaeological evidence related to settlement in the Nazareth basin during the Bronze and Iron Ages, and states that " Nazareth was a strongly Jewish settlement in the Roman period.

With Constantinople as its capital and vast control of lands around the Mediterranean basin, the empire was at the center of interactions between the Eastern and Western worlds for over six centuries.

Suleiman's policy of expansion throughout the Mediterranean basin was however halted in Malta in 1565.

It was a primary transportation route for pioneers during the westward expansion of the early U. S. The Ohio flows through or along the border of six states, and its drainage basin includes all, or part of, 14 states.

The sediments would be thickest in the northwest where basin depth was greatest.

183 / 89 was passed authorizing The Po Basin Water Board ( Autorità di bacino del fiume Po ), which would direct operations concerning all the water resources in the Po basin ( see under Po Valley ).

The shallow basin that now underlies the Gulf was an extensive region of river valley and wetlands during the transition between the end of the Last Glacial Maximum and the start of the Holocene, which, according to University of Birmingham archaeologist Jeffrey Rose, served as an environmental refuge for early humans during periodic hyperarid climate oscillations, laying the foundations for the legend of Dilmun

The ship was then disinfected, dead bodies buried at sea, infected clothing, bedding, etc., destroyed or disinfected, and bilge-water and water-ballast ( subject to exceptions ) pumped out at a suitable distance before the ship entered a dock or basin.

Where a lake has formed within the basin, the water body is usually saline as a result of the internal drainage — the water has no outlet to the sea.

The best marked of the basins so formed ( the Congo basin ) occupies a circular area bisected by the equator, once probably the site of an inland sea.

The Baltic Sea occupies a basin ( a zungenbecken ) formed by glacial erosion during the last few ice ages.

A large lowland basin formed over two million years ago as a result of an eastern flowing river that existed well before the Pleistocene ice ages.

It formed after the last ice age, one of many such peat bogs in north-east Cheshire and the Mersey basin that formed in hollows caused by melting ice.

The Indus River basin is a large, fertile alluvial plain formed by silt from the Indus.

After the continents are separated, heat from the mantle is more easily conducted through the newly formed ocean basin.

Volcanic arcs ( see volcanic arc ) and backarc basins ( see back-arc basin ) formed and were emplaced onto Eurasia as ophiolites ( see ophiolite ) as they collided with microcontinents ( literally relatively small plates of continental lithosphere ; e. g. Ustaomer and Robertson, 1997 ).

Where a lake has formed within the basin, the water body is usually saline as a result of the internal drainage — the water has no outlet to the sea.

For centuries these topographical features not only rendered north-south communication difficult but also formed an effective natural barrier for the containment of the people living in the Mekong basin.

The ancient kingdom of Van ( Ararat or Urartu or Biainili ), was formed in the 9th century BC in the basin of Lake Van of the Armenian Highland, including the territory of modern-day Yerevan.

Sedimentary deposits formed in that basin during Eocene times remain in place beneath the western portion of the San Luis Valley.

A type of basin formed by the moving apart of two pieces of a continent is called a rift basin.

Mono Lake ( ) is a large, shallow saline soda lake in Mono County, California, formed at least 760, 000 years ago as a terminal lake in a basin that has no outlet to the ocean.

Mono Lake formed because it lies in the Mono Basin, an endorheic basin that has no outlet to the ocean.

Most of this basin comprises rolling and undulating country, except for the western border, which is formed by an unbroken line of the Western Ghats.

The river is formed in Park County, Colorado, southwest of Denver in the South Park grassland basin by the confluence of the South Fork and Middle Fork, approximately southeast of Fairplay.

The eastern edge of the basin was uplifted when the Great Dividing Range formed.

It occupies a basin formed by glacial erosion.

Henderson County is located in the Blue Ridge Mountains, but is situated in an intermontane basin formed by the French Broad River and its tributaries.

The ice sheet closed the natural drainage from the Vale of Pickering, the Humber and The Wash so that a lake of a complex shape formed in the Vale of Pickering, the Yorkshire Ouse valley, the lower Trent valley and the Fenland basin.