BASIN, or BASON (the older form bacin is found in many of the Romanic languages, from the Late Lat. baccinus or bacchinus, probably derived from bacca, a bowl)

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BASIN, or BASON (the older form bacin is found in many of the Romanic languages, from the Late Lat. baccinus or bacchinus, probably derived from bacca, a bowl) , a round vessel for holding liquids. Hence the

term

TERM

has various technical uses, as of a dock constructed with flood-

gates

GATES, HORATIO (1728-1806)

in a tidal-river, or of a widening in a canal for unloading

barges

BARGES

; also, in

physical

PHYSICAL

geography, of the drainage area of a river and its tributaries.
In

geology

GEOLOGY (from Gr. yp7, the earth, and Abyor, science)

, " basin " is equivalent to a broad shallow syncline, i.e. it is a structure proper to the bed

rock

of the

district

DISTRICT

covered by the

term

TERM

; it must not be confused with the physiographic river basin, although it occasionally happens that the two coincide to some extent. Some of the better known

geological

GEOLOGICAL

basins in England are, the London basin, a shallow trough orsyncline of Tertiary, Cretaceous and Jurassic rocks; the

Hampshire

HAMPSHIRE (or COUNTY OF SOUTHAMPTON, abbreviated HANTS)

basin, of similar formations; and the numerous coal basins, e.g. the S. Wales coalfield, the Forest of Dean, N. Staffordshire coalfield, &c. The Paris basin is made of strata similar to those in the London and

Hampshire

HAMPSHIRE (or COUNTY OF SOUTHAMPTON, abbreviated HANTS)

basins. Strictly speaking, a structural basin is formed of

rock

beds which exhibit a centroclinal dip; an elongated narrow syncline or trough is not a basin. " Rock-basins " are comparatively small, steep-sided depressions that have been scooped out of the solid rock in mountainous regions, mainly through the agency of glaciers (see

CIRQUE

CIRQUE (Lat. circus, ring)

). Lakes sometimes occupy basins that have been caused by the removal in solution of some of the more soluble constituents (rock salt, &c.) in the underlying strata; occasion-ally lake basins have been formed directly by crustal movements.

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