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2. Drainage basin - Wikipedia

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   Top-down illustration of a dendritic drainage basin. The dashed line is the main water divide of the hydrography basin. Digital terrain map of the Latorița River's drainage basin in Romania. Drainage basins are important in ecology. As water flows over the ground and along rivers it can pick up nutrients, sediment, and pollutants.

3. Endorheic basin - Wikipedia

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   The endorheic basin that feeds water into Üüreg Lake, Mongolia NASA photo of the endorheic Tarim Basin, China. An endorheic basin (/ ˌ ɛ n d oʊ ˈ r iː. ɪ k / EN-doh-REE-ik; also endoreic basin and endorreic basin) is a drainage basin that normally retains water and allows no outflow to other external bodies of water (e.g. rivers and oceans); instead, the water drainage flows into ...

4. Sink - Wikipedia

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   A sink/basin in a bathroom Enamel washbowl and jug Sink in Croatian National Theater in Zagreb, Croatia. A sink (also known as basin in the UK) is a bowl-shaped plumbing fixture for washing hands, dishwashing, and other purposes. Sinks have a tap (faucet) that supplies hot and cold water and may include a spray feature

5. Endorheic lake - Wikipedia

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   Death Valley, Spring 2005: ephemeral Lake Badwater in the flooded Badwater Basin. An endorheic lake (also called a sink lake or terminal lake) is a collection of water within an endorheic basin, or sink, with no evident outlet. [1] Endorheic lakes are generally saline as a result of being unable to get rid of solutes left in the lake by ...

6. Depression (geology) - Wikipedia

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   Sink: an endorheic depression generally containing a persistent or intermittent (seasonal) lake, a salt flat (playa) or dry lake, or an ephemeral lake. Panhole: a shallow depression or basin eroded into flat or gently sloping, cohesive rock. [2] Collapse-related: Sinkhole: a depression formed as a result of the collapse of rocks lying above a ...

7. Great Basin - Wikipedia

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   Most Great Basin precipitation is snow, and the precipitation that neither evaporates nor is extracted for human use will sink into groundwater aquifers, while evaporation of collected water occurs from geographic sinks. [11] Lake Tahoe, North America's largest alpine lake, [12] is part of the Great Basin's central Lahontan subregion.

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9. Watersheds of North America - Wikipedia

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   Most lakes are not actually endorheic, but endorheic basins may not have standing water, or have water only seasonally. The most significant endorheic basins are these: Great Basin covering most of Nevada, the western part of Utah, and smaller amounts of other U.S. states; Great Divide Basin on the Continental Divide in Wyoming; Guzmán Basin