Basin Range (IMAGE)

University of California - San Diego

Basin Range

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The sinking of the Farallon plate beneath the North American continent over 30 million years created the geologic feature known as the Basin and Range Province, an area of the western United States that encompasses much of Nevada, seen here in a topographic model.

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Mike Sandiford/University of Melbourne

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