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.
Jstuby, Public domain.- Depression with an elevation of around 4,530 feet (1,380 metres)
- Description: oil field in Wyoming, United States
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Latitude
44.99078° or 44° 59′ 27″ north
Longitude
-108.86875° or 108° 52′ 8″ west
Open location code
85PHX4RJ+8F
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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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