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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.
1.1.2 Missouri River Basin. 2 Alphabetically. 3 By size. ... Near junction with Missouri River Verdigris River: ... USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Kansas (1974)
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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]
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.
U.S. Census Bureau regions and divisions. Since 1950, the United States Census Bureau defines four statistical regions, with nine divisions. [1] [2] The Census Bureau region definition is "widely used ... for data collection and analysis", [3] and is the most commonly used classification system.
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.
The Morrow Formation is found in the Delaware Basin of southeastern New Mexico. Map of Delaware Basin. Morrow sand was largely deposited in the NW Shelf of the basin An example of the flatness found in the region. Image from near the Carlsbad Caverns in Carlsbad, New Mexico. It can be found at depths of 8,200 to 12,500 feet.