The core regions of the central highlands contain many complex topographical features including ridges, peaks, plateaus, basins, valleys, and escarpments (Fig. 1).
Although mass-wasting processes are common phenomena in supradetachment basins, the Shadow Valley basin is an exceptional locale for the study of such processes, especially rock-avalanches and gravity sliding.
The Georgetown Loop Historic Mining and Railroad Park is 2 miles (3 km) west, and the Loveland Basin and Valley Ski areas are nearby.
He then resurveyed the soil profiles in dozens of sections across the basin's valley in the 1970s and again in the 1990s to look for changes.
Knowledge of the (paleo- basin, associated valley architecture and the source of heavy minerals concentrated in the shorelines and valleys are useful guides to the paleo- basinr, associatedon of, economic deposits.
Seidel's husband later texted her, "Our house is the epicenter". That's because the quake's waves "bounce back and forth" within the basin and valleys, "so you get this bowl of Jello effect," Hauksson said.
The study was conducted using streamflow monitoring networks in two Canadian basins, specifically in the Hamilton, Halton, Credit Valley basins of Ontario and the Columbia River basin of British Columbia.
It is a sub-basin of the Rift Valley Lakes Basin and is part of the Great East African Rift Valley, which covers the major dryland portion of the country, and has three landscape units (physiographic regions): the valley floor, escarpments, and highlands.
It consists largely of broad, open-ended basins or valleys of gentle slope.
Basins and valleys, headquarters for large cattle ranches, are scattered through the Blue Mountains.
