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The West and East Caroline basins have similar but distinct histories. Sea-floor spreading started c. 36 Ma along mostly East–North-East-directed axes, except in the eastern West Caroline Basin where anomalies are oriented more East-West.
Tropical Cyclones that develop within this basin generally affect countries to the west of the dateline, though during years of the warm phase of El Niño–Southern Oscillation cyclones have been known to develop to the east of the dateline near French Polynesia. On average the basin sees nine tropical cyclones annually with about half of them ...
But the 1.2-million-gallon basin at the K West Reactor, built in the 1950s, still holds contaminated water that provides shielding for the radioactive debris in the basin. “The 100-K West basin ...
The Pacific Basin is bounded by the Continental divide to the east and Pacific Ocean to the west; the basin excludes the endorheic Great Basin in the west. The Great Basin has a closed loop boundary encompassing substantially all of Nevada, the western half of Utah and parts of Oregon, California, Idaho, and Wyoming.
Hyperion is the largest sewage plant by volume west of the Mississippi River. [ 1 ] Los Angeles City Sanitation (LASAN) operates the largest wastewater collection system in the US, serving a population of four million within a 600 square miles (1,600 km 2 ) service area.
1. Pacific Northwest Basin; 2. California River Basin; 3. Great Basin; 4. Lower Colorado River Basin; 5. Upper Colorado River Basin; 6. Rio Grande River Basin
The Western Basin of Lake Erie is the shallow flat basin that comprises the western third of the lake that borders the U.S. states of Michigan and Ohio and the Canadian province of Ontario. The shallowest section of Lake Erie is the western basin where depths average only 25 to 30 feet (7.6 to 9.1 m); as a result, "the slightest breeze can kick ...
West Basin debuted in 1978, featuring a new base area, a dedicated beginner area, and another double chairlift. In 1985, the North Peak area was completed, featuring a CTEC triple and another lodge, and increasing Loon's vertical to 2,100 feet. [2] From the late 1980s to the early 90s, Loon began pursuing an expansion to the west.