The deep valleys on the outside flanks are evidently valleys of erosion, but the basins between the cordilleras were created with them.
There are several subordinate transversal dikes and some longitudinal ridges, but all the basins lie parallel to the axes of the cordilleras--a characteristic feature of the Andes.
It could contain the basins of the Mississippi, the Danube, the Nile, and the Hoang-Ho.
This is appropriately the introduction to the greater geyser basins which lie near by upon the south.
Perhaps there have been greater geyser basins somewhere in the prehistoric past.
The drainage basins of these splendid streams cover nearly half of the park's total area, and include some of the biggest, as well as some of the wildest and most beautiful mountain scenery in the world.
Then these valleys will become basinsof geysers and hot springs like Yellowstone's.
The bulky growing mounds of white and gray deposit are edged with minutely carven basins mounted upon elaborately fluted supports of ornate design, over whose many-colored edges flows a shimmer of hot water.
All has been ground to powder and carried off by flood and stream to enrich the soils and upbuild later strata in the drainage basins of the Saskatchewan, the Columbia, and the Mississippi.
The comparison between Katmai's steaming valleys and the geyser basin of Yellowstone is especially instructive because Yellowstone's basins doubtless once were what Katmai's steaming valleys are now.
Basin rises upon basin, tier upon tier, each in turn destined to clog and dry and merge into the mass while new basins and new tiers form and grow and glow awhile upon their outer flank.
The House of Commons ordered that all communion tables be removed from the east end of churches, that the railings be taken away, and all candles and basins be removed from it.
The Great Western Railway Company, for example, have already several large transhipping basins on the canals of the Black Country.
It has seemed to me that these burrows have played and are playing an important part in the formation of the numberless rocky basins which we call tide-pools, and in which we marine naturalists so much delight.
The deeperbasins are pretty sure of containing one or two, and generally of larger size.
In the upper parts of the valleys a number of lakes occur, occupying hollows and rockbasins in the agglomerates and ashes, fed by springs, and feeding many of the streams that drain the mountain slopes.
In Bonneville's maps are charted with general accuracy the great interior basins of the Great Salt, Mud, and Sevier Lakes, the Humboldt and Sevier Rivers.
In 1781, in the gardens of the Palais-Royal, were discovered the remains of great basins which are supposed to have been the piscines of the hygienic baths.
In the north-west a range of hills known as the Atacora forms a watershed between the basins of the Weme, the Niger and the Volta.
The watershed separating the basins of the Nile and Lake Chad runs north and south through the centre of the country.
The little port, which has two basins and is accessible only to vessels of light tonnage, had a certain gaiety and as much local colour as you please.
When using gas for heating, the baths and fitted basins should not be unnecessarily large, and note that a square-bottomed bath will need more water to fill it than that which is curved.
These supply the storage tanks and a continuous service of hot water to four bathrooms, wash-basins in lavatories and sinks.
Each member of the family promised to leave lavatorybasins washed and wiped out after use and to avoid by untidiness and carelessness giving any extra trouble.
The half-buried summits are succeeded by basins of accumulation.
When the basins were formed he found to his regret that no mere earthen bank would hold the water; and skilled labour had to be called in to build dams of stone and cement, less pretty than the concealed dyke he had intended.
From there they crossed over the Divide to the geyser basins of the Firehole.
Ferris, one of the great geyser basins was visited in the spring hunt of 1833 by a party of forty men under a Spaniard named Alvaris (or Alvarez).
The value of water in alternative uses, with special application to water use in the San Juan and Rio Grande basins of New Mexico.
Exploration and development of many coastal and offshore sedimentary basins with a potential for oil or gas production are proceeding rapidly.
Several large basinsof salt water communicate with the cove.
Remarks on the Occurrence of Native Silver and Ores of Silver in the Stratification of the Basins of Lakes Huron and Superior.
Remarks on the Occurrence of Native Silver, and the Ores of Silver, in the Stratification of the Basins of Lakes Huron and Superior.
It appears rather as the junction of separate lakes which have had their basins fretted into one another, than as one original lake.
The two geological profiles of the Mississippi Valley and the Lake Basins accompanying the original are here omitted; as, also, most of the illustrative views of scenery which accompanied the original.
Plarasa and Tauropolis; two of its basins are still distinguishable, but the two water-towers which are still standing belong to a later Byzantine structure.
Then there were placid-looking, slumbering lakes, basins of short grass, which scarcely reached their ankles.
She made him turn and led him from the narrow paths to the centre of the parterre, where, once upon a time, great basins had been hollowed out.
And, lastly, because when they excavated on a thin slip of wax, the excavation on both sides of similar smooth basins was stopped, and flat planes left between the nearly opposed basins.
Lyell adheres to the views expressed in the "Antiquity of Man" (1863) against Ramsay's theory of the origin of lake basins by ice action.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "basins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
