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Green Canyon is an area in the Gulf of Mexico [1] that is rich in oil fields and under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.Among other oil fields Green Canyon consist of Atlantis (blocks 699, 700, 742, 743, and 744) operated by BP, [2] Marco Polo (block 608) and K2 (blocks 518 and 562) operated by Anadarko Petroleum, [3] [4] Manatee (block 155) operated by Shell, [5 ...
Copper Canyon. / 27.51611; -107.76583. Copper Canyon (Spanish: Barrancas del Cobre) is a group of six distinct canyons in the Sierra Madre Occidental in the southwestern part of the state of Chihuahua in northwestern Mexico that is 65,000 square kilometres (25,000 sq mi) in size. The canyons were formed by six rivers that drain the western side ...
Bullwinkle was a 1,736 feet (529 m) [ 1] tall, pile-supported fixed steel oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico. Installed in 1988, the total weight of the platform was 77,000 tons, of which the steel jacket comprises 49,375 tons. [ 2] At the time of its construction it was the third tallest freestanding structure ever built – shorter than only ...
Utah Lake and Utah Valley. The Domínguez–Escalante expedition was undertaken in 1776 with the purpose of finding a route across the largely unexplored continental interior from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to Spanish missions in Las Californias, such as the Spanish presidio at Monterey. On July 29, 1776, Atanasio Domínguez led the expedition from ...
The Green River, located in the western United States, is the chief tributary of the Colorado River. The watershed of the river, known as the Green River Basin, covers parts of the U.S. states of Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado. The Green River is 730 miles (1,170 km) long, beginning in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming and flowing through ...
Designated. August 28, 1984. The Verde River ( Yavapai: Haka'he:la) is a major tributary of the Salt River in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is about 170 miles (270 km) long [ 4] and carries a mean flow of 602 cubic feet per second (17.0 m 3 /s) at its mouth. It is one of the largest perennial streams in Arizona.
Cukang Taneuh. / 7.7352°S 108.4564°E / -7.7352; 108.4564. Cukang Taneuh, which means Soil Bridge in Sundanese, is a canyon located in Pangandaran, West Java, Indonesia. It is also known as Green Canyon. [ 1][ 2] The name may have been derived from the color of the surrounding water and hills. The canyon was formed over millions of ...
The Sonoran Desert ( Spanish: Desierto de Sonora) is a hot desert in North America and ecoregion that covers the northwestern Mexican states of Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur, as well as part of the southwestern United States (in Arizona and California ). It is the hottest desert in both Mexico and the United States. [ 3]