basin
Example Sentences
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Mitchell said current pumping in the Ranegras basin isn’t sustainable, and that in places it’s causing the land surface to sink as much as 2 inches per year.
From Los Angeles Times
The basin is trying to lure data centers with cheap land and energy and has plans to become a hub for burying carbon dioxide captured at industrial plants and sucked out of the air.
This area of the North Sea is teeming with depleted oil and gas fields like Nini, as well as deep rock basins.
From Barron's
However, ocean basins are not just a container for seawater.
From Science Daily
All these other basins—the Northeast Pacific, Northwest Pacific and North Indian—have clocked below-normal activity for tropical storms.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
