Owens Valley in California lies on the western edge of the Great Basin.

加州的欧文斯谷处在大盆地的西部边缘。

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In this below-sea-level basin, steady drought and record summer heat make Death Valley a land of extremes.

死亡谷是一个低于海平面的盆地，长期以来的干旱和极端的酷热造就了它的极限地貌。

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Both these cities lie in the Yangtze River basin and so the descending monsoon air warms and dries as it moves into the valley.

这两个城市都在长江流经的盆地，当下沉的季风进入谷中，空气会很温暖和干燥。

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Late in the fall, during a rare lull in his work on the Mars program, Grotzinger and I took a drive to Death Valley due east from his house in lush San Marino, across the front range of the San Gabriels, past Apple Valley and Barstow, and down into the great basin of the Mojave.

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Drive just 10km east from Papallacta and you enter the Amazon Basin's cloud forest, which covers the slopes and the valley in green growth.

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