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What mountains form the vast basin that contains half the area of the US?
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What type of mountains can form when compression occurs on a large area?
mountains with a point
Which two natural features form the boundaries of the Mississippi River drainage basin on the east and west?
If you want to get geographical you have to configure in the Red River of the North which flows north unlike the Mississippi and it cuts the drainage basin short up north in the Minnesota/North Dakota area. Here is a link to show you a picture: http://toxics.usgs.gov/hypoxia/images/mississippi_river_watershed.gif The Rocky Mountains are in the west. They act as a barrier. The appalcian mountains in the east probably do as well.
What is the area that creates volcanic mountains?
There are two areas where volcanic mountains often form. They are subduction zones and hot spots.
What is basin ranges of a mountains?
To rephrase the question, What is the basin and range? ANSWER: The basin and range is located in the western United States. It is caused by the Slab Window. It is expansion zone that the continent has overridden. This caused the western United States to stretch. The stretching occurred along the parallels (in an eastern and western direction). Because of this, it left many valleys (Basins) including Owens, Panamint, and Death Vally. It also created mountain ranges including the Sierra Nevada, White Mountains, Panamint Range, and the Black Mountains. These Basins and Ranges run north to south or south to north due to the pulling that is perpendicular to direction of the basins and ranges. This area is located in the Great Basin. I large area that covers about a 1/5 of the United States. This area dose not drain to the ocean, so many lakes and dry lake beds form here. Lakes include Mono Lake and Salt Lake. Dry lake beds better know as playas in the academic world include el Mirage and the Bad Water Basin.
Which two nature features form the boundaries of the Mississippi river drainage basin on the east and the west?
If you want to get geographical you have to configure in the Red River of the North which flows north unlike the Mississippi and it cuts the drainage basin short up north in the Minnesota/North Dakota area. Here is a link to show you a picture: http://toxics.usgs.gov/hypoxia/images/mississippi_river_watershed.gif The Rocky Mountains are in the west. They act as a barrier. The appalcian mountains in the east probably do as well.
Which two natural features form the boundaries of the Mississippi river drainage basin on the east and the west?
If you want to get geographical you have to configure in the Red River of the North which flows north unlike the Mississippi and it cuts the drainage basin short up north in the Minnesota/North Dakota area. Here is a link to show you a picture: http://toxics.usgs.gov/hypoxia/images/mississippi_river_watershed.gif The Rocky Mountains are in the west. They act as a barrier. The appalcian mountains in the east probably do as well.
What area has a high elevation and separates Spain form France?
The Pyrenees mountains.
Are plateaus and basins alike?
A basin is a animal plateau is a form of land
Where do deserts exist?
Deserts form on one side of mountains or high area masses.
What is a range of mountains?
To rephrase the question, What is the basin and range? ANSWER: The basin and range is located in the western United States. It is caused by the Slab Window. It is expansion zone that the continent has overridden. This caused the western United States to stretch. The stretching occurred along the parallels (in an eastern and western direction). Because of this, it left many valleys (Basins) including Owens, Panamint, and Death Vally. It also created mountain ranges including the Sierra Nevada, White Mountains, Panamint Range, and the Black Mountains. These Basins and Ranges run north to south or south to north due to the pulling that is perpendicular to direction of the basins and ranges. This area is located in the Great Basin. I large area that covers about a 1/5 of the United States. This area dose not drain to the ocean, so many lakes and dry lake beds form here. Lakes include Mono Lake and Salt Lake. Dry lake beds better know as playas in the academic world include el Mirage and the Bad Water Basin.
How did the Stovepipe Dunes form?
Dunes are formed through the interaction of mountains and wind. The wind picks up quartz grains from the mountains in the area to form the dunes and these are reshaped by the same process over time.
Why did marble mountains form?
Why was marble mountains form
