basin range

American  

noun

Geology.

1. a mountain range of the type found in the Great Basin region of the western U.S., typically long and narrow and characterized by faulted, tilted blocks of strata.

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Example Sentences

"We found that this tsunami moved throughout the entire ocean, in every ocean basin," Range said in comments obtained by LiveScience.

From Fox News

This is the Basin Range type of mountain.

From Project Gutenberg

"What's amazing about this is not only that there are so many of them, but they're also finding so many juvenile desert tortoises," says Kevin Emmerich, cofounder of Basin & Range Watch, a Nevada website that tracks and opposes large-scale solar development in the desert.

From Forbes

In fact, the Great Basin region, as the term has been used on a previous page, there 163 meets the Pacific, and the islands rising from the adjacent portion of the ocean seem to be the summits of mountains of the Basin Range type.

From Project Gutenberg

That part of California which lies to the south and east of the southern inosculation of the Coast Range and the Sierra comprises an area of fully 50,000 sq. m., and belongs to the Basin Range region.

From Project Gutenberg