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  2. 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.

  3. 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]

  4. Great Basin - Wikipedia

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    The "section" is somewhat larger than the hydrographic definition. The Great Basin culture area, or indigenous peoples of the Great Basin, is a cultural classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas and a cultural region located between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada.

  5. 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]

  6. Ecology of the Sierra Nevada - Wikipedia

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    The lowest-elevation biotic zone in the Sierra Nevada is found along the boundary with the Central Valley. [5] This zone, stretching in elevation from 500 to 3,500 feet (150 to 1,070 m), is the foothill woodland zone, an area that is hot and dry in the summer with very little or no snow in the winter. [5]

  7. Geology of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The extent of internal drainage, the area in which surface water cannot reach the ocean, defines the geographic region called the Great Basin. [7] The Great Basin's internal drainage results from blockage of water movement by high fault-created mountains and by lack of sufficient water flow to merge with larger drainages outside of the Great Basin.

  8. Intermontane Plateaus - Wikipedia

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    The region consists mostly of plateaus and mountain ranges lying between the Rocky Mountains on the east and the Cascade and Sierra Nevada Mountains on the west. It is subdivided into three physiographic provinces : the Columbia Plateau in the north, the Basin and Range Province in the central and southwestern portions, and the Colorado Plateau ...

  9. 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 in the western United States.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.