basin
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Their work focuses on sedimentary rocks from the Appalachian basin in the eastern United States.
From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2026
Dry soils can absorb large amounts of snowmelt before it ever reaches streams, while groundwater losses across the basin have surged in recent decades.
From Science Daily • Apr. 14, 2026
One image stood out: the Orientale basin, a 600-mile crater near the Moon's far side, seen in full by human eyes for the first time.
From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026
Sixty miles from Julian, I turn onto Bannister Road and bump north along a gravel track for three miles into the basin, to a parking lot 164 feet below sea level.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026
Not a moment could be lost: the very sheets were kindling, I rushed to his basin and ewer; fortunately, one was wide and the other deep, and both were filled with water.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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