Sentence examples for great basins from inspiring English sources

As it cooled, water in the atmosphere condensed and the Earth was pummeled with torrential rains, which filled its great basins, forming seas.

In the ancient past the largest impacts made great basins, some of which were later partly filled by the enormous lava floods.

Great basins of ice such as the Recovery Ice Stream would flow faster towards the ocean were it not for the buttressing effect of the shelves.

"Now these pollutants can contaminate great basins even at low altitudes where water is used for drinking and fishing purposes".

Classified as a cold mid-latitude desert is the Great Basin Desert, which lies in the physiographic Great Basin that covers nearly all of Nevada, western Utah, and portions of surrounding states.

The Great Basin Naturalist 11 91 96.

8. GREAT BASIN, NEVADA -- Distant glows of Salt Lake City and Las Vegas.

The water, having fallen, with an almighty rush, feels as if it might be being rocked in a great basin.

Great Basin Bank, the 25th American bank to fail this year, was undone by heavy losses on commercial property.

For most of its recorded history, the Truckee meandered lazily 110 miles from mountainous Lake Tahoe through Reno, once a floodplain, to the great basin in Nevada.

Great Basin national park is situated in the heart of Nevada's famous basin and range topography, with craggy mountains alternating with vast sagebrush valleys.