Elk Basin
Elk Basin is a valley on the border of Montana and Wyoming in the United States. It is an active oil field with hundreds of derricks operating in it. Geologically, it is a breached anticline formed by a deep subsurface thrust fault.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Elk Basin
- Type: Depression with an elevation of 4,531 feet
- Description: oil field in Wyoming, United States
- Categories: oil field and landform
- Location: Park, Wyoming, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Japanese—“Elk Basin” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Elk Basin (libaong sa Estados Unidos, Wyoming)”
- Cebuano: “Elk Basin”
- Chinese: “麋鹿盆地”
- Japanese: “エルク盆地”
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