Landforms
Basin may also refer to some types of geological depressions:
- Drainage basin (hydrology), a topographic region in which all water drains to a common area
- Endorheic basin, a closed topographic low area with no drainage outlet
- Sedimentary basin (sedimentology), a low and usually sinking region that is filled with sediments from adjacent positive areas
- Structural basin (geologyn of rock strata formed by tectonic warping of previously flat lying strata
- Oceanic basin, a structural basin covered by seawater
- Pull apart basin, a section of crust separated by the action of two strike-slip faults
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