This crustal extension broke the Basin and Range into a series of north-south-trending fault-block mountains and downdropped basins, which filled with thousands of metres of upper Cenozoic sediment.
Displayed on pedestals, flat-bottomed, crudely hand-molded clay basins contain broken pieces of other basins and pours of brightly colored glazes that resemble toxic chemicals and tarry sludge.
The stone began failing within a decade, and for a while the fountain mechanism was broken and the basin filled with litter.
The police said chairs and stools were overturned, and there was broken crockery, a broken sugar basin, and what looked like blood on the floor.
Around seventy percent of the shells recovered from the basin are broken which suggests the occurrence of strong tides.
In 1946 the writer fell in the railroad station, and later, in the Netherland Plaza Hotel broke a wash basin in two when she tried to open a bottle of ginger-ale.
The storm still marked the farthest northeast a tropical cyclone formed in the Atlantic basin, breaking the record set by Hurricane Vince in 2005.
She used to go with her father to buy rationed food, and they would join a long queue of shoppers waiting for extra eggs that had been broken and placed in a basin.
The Chilwa basin-plain is broken by a few hill formations (including Chisi Island and Mpyupyu Hill) and exhibits five terrace levels formed by shrinkage of the lake.
During a series of stop-time breaks on "Basin Street Blues," the second tune, Mr. Nelson's phrasing was almost perversely free of tempo, rustling like a breeze.
