| 单词 | lake-basin |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslake-basin lake-basin n. a depression which contains, or has contained, a lake; also, the area drained by all the streams entering a lake. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hollow or depression > [noun] > large hollow or basin hollow1553 howe1584 lake-basin1833 bolson1838 basinc1854 terr-oceanic basin1859 bowl1860 torsion-basin1899 cuvette1907 foredeep1909 1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 9 The whole assemblage must terminate somewhere:..where they reach the boundary of the original lake-basin. 1865 D. Page Handbk. Geol. Terms (ed. 2) 272 Lake-basin, in geography, the depressed area which contains the waters of a lake; also the entire area drained by the streams that fall into a lake. In geology, the concavity..in which the waters of a lake rest. 1882 Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 21 326 In the Himalaya, the valleys of Nepal and Kashmir are old orographic lake basins. 1965 W. D. Thornbury Regional Geomorphol. U.S. xxiv. 494/2 Fish can be carried by birds from one lake basin into another. 1967 J. N. Jennings & J. A. Mabbutt Landform Stud. Austral. & New Guinea vi. 111 Such an argument would explain why well formed alluvial fans survive outside the catchment of Lake Torrens and why they are absent or present in only a degraded form within the lake basin. < as lemmas |
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