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7.2.8 Basin (Bowl)

A basin is a fold in which the beds dip radially toward a point or a doubly plunging syncline.

Images Basin Leet, L. D., S. Judson, and M. E. Kauffman. Physical Geology. Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewoods Cliff, New Jersey, 1982.

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