Large sunken areas of the crust filled with layers of sediment, formed by stretching, subsidence or folding, and including offshore, rift and intermountain basins. A feature belongs here when its cited article calls it a sedimentary basin, rift basin, depression or hollow of this kind. It excludes the makhtesh erosion craters and glacial cirques. Basins are studied for their coal, oil and gas, groundwater and the long record of rock layers they hold.
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Northern North Sea basin (Wikipedia)
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A geological basin is a large low-lying area or depression.
Ellisras Basin (Wikipedia)
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The Ellisras Basin is a geological basin that spans the border between South Africa and Botswana, extending west from the town of Lephalale (formerly Ellisras) in Limpopo province.
Gulf of Corinth basin (Wikipedia)
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The Gulf of Corinth basin, or Corinth rift, is an active extensional marine sedimentary basin thought to have started deforming during the late Miocene, Pleistocene epoch.
Pearl River Mouth basin (Wikipedia)
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The Pearl River Mouth basin (PRMB) is an extensional sedimentary basin located in the northern part of the South China Sea.
Minusinsk Hollow (Wikipedia)
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Minusinsk Basin or Khakass-Minusinsk Basin (Russian: Минусинская (Хакасско-Минусинская) котловина, Minusinskaya (Chakassko-Minusinskaya) kotlovina) is in Khakassia and Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia located among mountains of South Siberia.
Ronda Depression (Wikipedia)
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The Ronda Depression (Spanish: Depresión de Ronda; also Hoya de Ronda and occasionally Vega de Ronda) is a sedimentary basin in the form of a plateau located within the Cordillera Penibética, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain.
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