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The Delaware River (originally called the Grasshopper River) [4] is a 94-mile-long (151 km) [2] river located in the northeastern part of the state of Kansas. The Delaware River basin drains 1,117 square miles (2,890 km 2 ) from the outflow of the Perry Lake reservoir.
The Permian Basin comprises several component basins, including the Midland Basin, which is the largest; Delaware Basin, the second largest; and Marfa Basin, the smallest. The Permian Basin covers more than 86,000 square miles (220,000 km 2), [1] and extends across an area approximately 250 miles (400 km) wide and 300 miles (480 km) long. [2]
Toggle By drainage basin subsection. ... Delaware River: 682: Near Perry: Little Blue River: 672: ... USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Kansas (1974)
View looking south showing the flatness of the Delaware Basin. Image from the Walnut Canyon drive, Carlsbad Caverns National Park. By earliest Permian time, during the Wolfcampian Epoch, the ovoid shaped subsiding Delaware Basin extended over 10,000 square miles (26,000 km 2) in what is now western Texas and southeast New Mexico.
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The storage rooms at the WIPP are 2,150 feet (660 m) underground in a salt formation of the Delaware Basin. The waste is from the research and production of United States nuclear weapons only. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The plant started operation in 1999, and the project is estimated to cost $19 billion in total.
Spring River, Kansas. Nearly 75 mi (121 km) of the state's northeastern boundary is defined by the Missouri River.The Kansas River (locally known as the Kaw), formed by the junction of the Smoky Hill and Republican rivers at appropriately-named Junction City, joins the Missouri River at Kansas City, after a course of 170 mi (270 km) across the northeastern part of the state.
Permian Basin is in geology the name of two large intercontinental basins that were formed in the Permian period, neither of which are in Perm Krai: Permian Basin (North America) , a basin in the subsurface of the south of the United States, in west Texas and southeast New Mexico