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title: "Subbasin"
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source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subbasin"
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date_saved: "2026-05-05T07:22:19.116933+00:00"
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A subbasin or sub-basin is a structural geologic feature where a larger basin is divided into a series of smaller basins with intervening intrabasinal highs.
The term subbasin has common use in geologic literature, but has yet to be included in the API Glossary of Geology.


== References ==