Basin

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Basin may refer to various places and forms:

Contents 1 Natural forms 2 Places 3 Man-made forms

[edit] Natural forms

• Depression (geology) - landform lower than the surrounding area, such as the Kalahari Basin

• Drainage basin - in geography and hydrology, a hydrological basin or catchment basin, a region of land where water drains downhill into a specified body of water

• Endorheic basin - in geography and hydrology, an internal drainage system

• Graben - in structural geology, a downdropped fault block which becomes filled with sediments

• Oceanic basin - generalized term used in hydrological and geological sciences

• Sedimentary basin - in sedimentology, a low and usually sinking region that is filled with sediments from adjacent positive areas

• Structural basin - in geology, referring to the basin-shaped warping of underlying bedrock in a region

[edit] Places

• Basin, Masovian Voivodeship - in east-central Poland
• Basin, Wyoming
• Basin, California, former name of Huntington Lake, California
• Basin Harbor Club - in Vergennes, Vermont
• Basin Mountain (New York) - in the High Peaks Adirondacks, New York state
• Columbia Basin
• Kalahari Basin
• Tarim Basin - in Xinjiang, China, one of the largest drainage basins in the world.
• The Basin, Victoria - in Australia
• The Basin (Franconia Notch State Park) - in New Hampshire (geological feature)
• Tidal Basin (District of Columbia)

[edit] Man-made forms

• Basin (chanson de geste) - epic poem about a thief of the same name
• Basin (maritime) - a dock used for the reception of boats, in which the water level is maintained
• Basin of attraction - in mathematics (nonlinear systems)
• Canal basin - a docking section of canal wide enough to allow for uninterrupted traffic
• Emesis basin - metal, kidney-shaped bowl used in convalescent settings
• Pudding basin - kitchen utensil of a rounded internal form and wider at its open top
• Tidal basin - a basin (see Basin (maritime)) that is full of water at high tide
• Wash basin - bowl designed to contain water for the purpose of cleaning hands and other minor ablutions

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