| 单词 | bolson-plain |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbolson-plain In the south-western U.S. and Mexico, a basin-shaped depression surrounded by mountains. Also bolson-plain. 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 1838 A. Ganilh Mexico v. Texas 9 A desert known, in the maps [of Mexico], under the name of ‘Bolson of Mapimi’. 1847 G. F. Ruxton Adventures Mexico & Rocky Mts. xiii. 96 The sun was fast sinking behind the rugged crest of the ‘Bolson’, tinging the serrated ridge..with a golden flood of light. 1904 Amer. Geol. Sept. 164 The bolson plains may be considered as sections of an upraised peneplain surface in its earliest infancy, at a stage in which they are as yet untouched by stream-action. 1964 F. O'Rourke Mule for Marquesa 15 It would be..the Bolsón, ten thousand square miles of the high desert, cupped within the waterless mountains. < as lemmas |
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