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  2. Horst and graben - Wikipedia

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    The Basin and Range Province in the western United States is an extensive region of alternating valleys and ridges caused by horst and graben as well as tilted block faulting. [1] The Condroz and Ardennes regions of Wallonia are good examples of a succession of horst and graben.

  3. Graben - Wikipedia

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    Basin and Range Province of southwestern North America is an example of multiple horst/graben structures, including Death Valley, with Salt Lake Valley being the easternmost and Owens Valley being the westernmost. Lake George Basin, New York, U.S. Lake Tahoe Basin, California and Nevada, U.S. Republic Graben, Republic, Washington, U.S.

  4. Basin and Range Province - Wikipedia

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    NASA satellite photo of typical Basin and Range topography across central Nevada. The Basin and Range Province includes much of western North America.In the United States, it is bordered on the west by the eastern fault scarp of the Sierra Nevada and spans over 500 miles (800 km) to its eastern border marked by the Wasatch Fault, the Colorado Plateau and the Rio Grande Rift.

  5. Basin and range topography - Wikipedia

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    View of the Basin and Range Province from space. The Basin and Range Province is the most well known example of basin and range topography. Clarence Dutton compared the many narrow parallel mountain ranges that distinguish the unique topography of the Basin and Range to an "army of caterpillars crawling northward." [5]

  6. Geology of Nevada - Wikipedia

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    Intense volcanism, the horst and graben landscape of the Basin and Range Province originating from the Farallon Plate, and both glaciers and valley lakes have played important roles in the region throughout the past 66 million years. [1]

  7. Geology of the Death Valley area - Wikipedia

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    Sediment filled the subsiding Furnace Creek Basin as the area was pulled apart by Basin and Range extension. The resulting 7,000-foot (2,100 m)-thick Furnace Creek Formation is made of lakebed sediments that consist of saline muds, gravels from nearby mountains and ash from the then-active Black Mountain volcanic field. [27]

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  9. Great Basin - Wikipedia

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    Extensional environments like the Basin and Range are characterized by listric normal faulting, or faults that level out with depth. Opposing normal faults link at depth producing a horst and graben geometry, where horst refers to the upthrown fault block and graben to the down dropped fault block. [21] [22]

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