The Wyoming Basin
physiographic province
physiographic province is a geographic region with a characteristic geomorphology, and often specific subsurface rock type or structural elements. The continents are subdivided into various physiographic provinces, each having a specific characte ...
is a geographic area through which the
Continental Divide of the Americas
The Continental Divide of the Americas (also known as the Great Divide, the Western Divide or simply the Continental Divide; ) is the principal, and largely mountainous, hydrological divide of the Americas. The Continental Divide extends from t ...
traverses. The province includes the
Washakie Basin
Great Basin DivideWashakie Basin
and
Great Divide Basins, and is demarcated by the following:
*southwest:
Uinta Mountains
The Uinta Mountains ( ) are an east-west trending chain of mountains in northeastern Utah extending slightly into southern Wyoming in the United States. As a subrange of the Rocky Mountains, they are unusual for being the highest range in the ...
*west: west side of
Green River watershed
See also
*
Wyoming Basin shrub steppe
The Wyoming Basin shrub steppe ecoregion, within the deserts and xeric shrublands biome, is a shrub steppe in the northwestern United States.
Setting
This Ecoregion is located almost entirely within the western and central portions of the US s ...
References
Physiographic provinces
Geography of Carbon County, Wyoming
Geography of Fremont County, Wyoming
Geography of Sweetwater County, Wyoming
Geography of Wyoming
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