Basin - Landforms

Landforms

Basin may also refer to some types of geological depressions:

  • Drainage basin (hydrology), a topographic region in which all water drains to a common area
  • Endorheic basin, a closed topographic low area with no drainage outlet
  • Sedimentary basin (sedimentology), a low and usually sinking region that is filled with sediments from adjacent positive areas
  • Structural basin (geologyn of rock strata formed by tectonic warping of previously flat lying strata
    • Oceanic basin, a structural basin covered by seawater
    • Pull apart basin, a section of crust separated by the action of two strike-slip faults

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