Continental Deformation. Creating the Basin and Range
Description
The Basin and Range Province is a dramatic landscape covering much of the southwestern United States. Its star attraction is Death Valley, a below-sea-level desert basin flanked by mountain ranges rising as high as 3.6 kilometers. This science bulletin joins a team of geologists who are combining traditional fieldwork with animated computer modeling to understand how the Basin and Range's geological drama has played out over the past 36 million years.
Runtime
8 min
Subjects
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
[2012], c2007
Database
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