Ecuador, which sits on the seismically volatile part of the the Pacific basin called the Ring of Fire, has a number of active volcanoes and regular small earthquakes, so, although the reverberations were worrisome, they were also familiar to Orellana.
The monitored area is situated in the intermountain part of the Danube basin, called in Slovakia "Podunajská nížina" (Danubian Lowland).
The plain covers part of the sedimentary basin called Chacoparanaense basin and minor depocenters such as the one in General Levalle.
The lithological features suggest that the CZD represents the remnant of an oceanic basin, called the Taihang Ocean that closed during the amalgamation of the Eastern Block and the Fuping Block around 1880 1850 Ma.
In its upper course the Arno flows generally south through the former lake basin called Casentino, to turn west and north at Arezzo.
The Niger Delta forms the seaward end of a NE SW-oriented failed rift basiNE SW-orientedenue Trough and is bounded to the east by the Cameroon volcanic line, to the west by the Dahomey Basin and to the south (seaward) by the 4000-m bathymetry contour (Corredor et al. 2005).
Farther along, past the towns of Silt, Rifle, and Parachute, the canyon opens into a broad basin called the Grand Valley.
He was born here 11 years ago and was soon abandoned to wander the streets, even before Elephant Butte — sandwiched between a city named Truth or Consequences and a desert basin called the Jornada del Muerto, the route of a dead man — became a city.
It is high in the west and low in the east, with a small basin called Wu'an Basin in the middle.
A wide Mesozoic oceanic basin, called the New Guinea ophiolite back-arc basin, separated the Australian continent from the proto-PSP (Hall 2002; Pubellier et al. 2003).
