impact basin

collocation in English

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impact
noun[C usually singular, U]
uk
/ˈɪm.pækt/us
/ˈɪm.pækt/
the force or action of one object ...
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basin
noun[C]
uk
/ˈbeɪ.sən/us
/ˈbeɪ.sən/
mainly UK
an open, round container shaped like a bowl with sloping sides, used for holding food ...
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(Definition ofimpactandbasinfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Chicxulub multiringimpactbasin: size and other characteristics derived from gravity analysis.
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Both valleys radiate away from theimpactbasinto the north.
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Herschel is 300 kilometers wide, so large that it is properly considered animpactbasin.
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The movement of tectonic plates, perhaps influenced by a nearbyimpactbasin, could have opened a gap through which the mountain's material upwelled.
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Though the simplest type of drop structure, it is highest in maintenance needs and less safe, with most problems related to theimpactbasin.
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Vesta, at 530 km and 2.6 kg, deviates from an ellipsoid shape primarily due to a largeimpactbasinat its pole.
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However, it is clearly centered within a largeimpactbasin.
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We can not, however, determine whether most lineaments are internal or are parts of a faulted and lineated facies associated with a nearby but unphotographedimpactbasin.
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At the largest sizes, one or more exterior or interior rings may appear, and the structure may be labeled an "impactbasin" rather than an impact crater.
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Impact craters range from small, simple, bowl-shaped depressions to large, complex, multi-ringed impact basins.
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In support of this, it has been noted that the largest crustal magnetizations appear to be located near the antipodes of the giant impact basins.
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In support of this, it has been noted that the largest crustal magnetizations appear to be located near the antipodes of the largest impact basins.
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In particular, the largest impact basins were formed during the early periods, and these were successively overlaid by smaller craters.
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A large portion of the mare formed, or flowed into, the low elevations associated with the nearside impact basins.
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Thus, while large impact basins are found on both the nearside and farside, large maria are mostly found on the nearside.
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The majority of these lavas erupted or flowed into the depressions associated with impact basins.
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The origin of mascons are in part due to the presence of dense mare basaltic lava flows that fill some of the impact basins.
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The largest impact basins, the multiring basins, can even have secondary concentric rings of raised material.
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