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  2. 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]

  3. Basin and Range Province - Wikipedia

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    The Basin and Range Province is a vast physiographic region covering much of the inland Western United States and northwestern Mexico. It is defined by unique basin and range topography , characterized by abrupt changes in elevation, alternating between narrow faulted mountain chains and flat arid valleys or basins.

  4. Northern Basin and Range ecoregion - Wikipedia

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    Basin sagebrush, Wyoming big sagebrush, bluebunch wheatgrass, needlegrass, bluegrass, and Indian ricegrass are also present. The region covers 438 square miles (1,134 km 2) in Idaho and 52 square miles (130 km 2) in Utah, in the Raft River drainage. The land is used primarily for rangeland and irrigated agriculture. [2] [4]

  5. Great Basin - Wikipedia

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    The Great Basin includes valleys, basins, lakes and mountain ranges of the Basin and Range Province. [ 20 ] The basin and range topography is the result of extension and thinning of the lithosphere , which is composed of crust and upper mantle .

  6. Physiographic regions of the United States - Wikipedia

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    USGS map colored by paleogeological areas and demarcating the sections of the U.S. physiographic regions: Laurentian Upland (area 1), Atlantic Plain (2-3), Appalachian Highlands (4-10), Interior Plains (11-13), Interior Highlands (14-15), Rocky Mountain System (16-19), Intermontane Plateaus (20-22), & Pacific Mountain System (23-25) The legend ...

  7. Great Basin Desert - Wikipedia

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    The Great Basin Desert is part of the Great Basin between the Sierra Nevada and the Wasatch Range.The desert is a geographical region that largely overlaps the Great Basin shrub steppe defined by the World Wildlife Fund, and the Central Basin and Range ecoregion defined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and United States Geological Survey.

  8. Basin and Range National Monument - Wikipedia

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    Basin and Range National Monument, Nevada. The Basin and Range National Monument area has geological, ecological, cultural, historical, paleoecological, seismological, archaeological, and paleoclimatological significance. [1] The area is located in a transitional region between the Mojave Desert and the Sagebrush Steppe of the Great Basin. [1]

  9. Bridgeport Valley - Wikipedia

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    The Bridgeport Valley is a large, fertile mountain basin between the eastern Sierra Nevada and the Bodie Hills of the U.S. state of California.The valley is 10 miles (16 km) long and 7.5 miles (12.1 km) wide, and is used primarily for ranching.