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	Basin and Range - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Basin and Range Province is a particular type of topography that covers much of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico that is typified by elongate north-south trending arid valleys bounded by mountain ranges which also bound adjacent valleys.
		Basin and Range topography also dominates large parts of the Mexican states of Sonora, Chihuahua, and Baja California.
		Although there are other types of faults in the Basin and Range province, the extension and crustal stretching that have shaped the present landscape produce mostly normal faults.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Basin_and_Range (803 words)

	CVO Website - Basin and Range
		Centered on the state of Nevada and extending from southern Oregon to western Texas, the Basin and Range Province is an immense region of alternating, north-south-trending, faulted mountains and flat valley floors.
		The bulk of the rocks exposed in this range are formed of sediments like sand, mud and limey ooze (silt and clay particles mixed with calcium carbonate) that were laid down on the bottom of a shallow sea during the late Precambrian and Cambrian (around 560 million years ago).
		The modern basins and ranges began to appear only within the last 30 million years or so, during the Cenozoic Era, when the Earth's crust in this area began to stretch in an east-west direction.
	vulcan.wr.usgs.gov /LivingWith/VolcanicPast/Notes/basin_and_range.html (712 words)

	USGS Geology in the Parks
		The Basin and Range province has a characteristic topography that is familiar to anyone who is lucky enough to venture across it.
		Aerial view of linear valleys and mountain ranges that characterize the Basin and Range Province.
		Within the Basin and Range Province, the Earth's crust (and upper mantle) has been stretched up to 100% of its original width.
	wrgis.wr.usgs.gov /docs/parks/province/basinrange.html (648 words)

	Amazon.com: Basin and Range: Books: John McPhee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		John McPhee's Basin and Range is a layman's geology explaining the formation of mountains and valleys between the Great Salt Lake and the Sierra Nevadas.
		Basin and Range is a short, interesting, and enjoyable explanation of the earth's early shifts of magnitude.
		Between "Basin and Range" and two books about the Geology of Utah by Hintze and Stokes, Utahns are blessed with an abundance of interesting geology books that will help the novice along and make a simple drive in the country a fascinating tour of what was and what will be.
	www.amazon.com /Basin-Range-John-McPhee/dp/0374516901 (1872 words)

	Basin & Range
		The first result is Basin and Range, a book of journeys through ancient terrains, always in juxtaposition with travels in the modern world--a history of vanished landscapes, enhanced by the histories of people who bring them to light.
		The Basin and Range is the physiographic province of the United States that reaches from eastern Utah to eastern California, a silent world of austere beauty, of hundreds of discrete high mountain ranges green with junipers and often white with snow, a spectacular topography that is never evoked by people who dismiss it as "desert."
		On and off Interstate 80, the author traversed the Basin and Range with Kenneth S. Deffeyes, a professor of geology at Princeton who has been both an oil geologist and a chemical oceanographer and has also done extensive fieldwork in Nevada.
	www.johnmcphee.com /basinrange.htm (523 words)

	Basin and Range
		Stretching across the Great Basin of Nevada and Utah southward through southeastern California, southern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico, and western Texas into northern Mexico is a region collectively referred to as the Basin and Range Province.
		The Sacramento Mountains on the east and the parallel San Andres Mountains on the west bracket the Tularosa Basin.
		Initially, the basin was the center of an anticline that later collapsed.
	www.fhsu.edu /biology/Eberle/DesertSW/BasinRange.html (577 words)

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	www.basinandrange.com (80 words)

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