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basin and range topography  

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  • Basin and range topography is a type of landscape where ridges and mountains alternate with depressions in a somewhat regular pattern. Such topography occurs wherever diastrophic processes have produced faults that have uplifted blocks and dropped down intervening basins. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Basin and Range Topography]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-LTBR0XFX-F

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