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Figure 1-7. Map Showing the Location of Yucca Mountain and Major Physiographic Provinces of the Southwest

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Yucca Mountain is located in the southern Great Basin, within the Basin and Range province of the western U.S. The Great Basin is bounded on the east by the Rocky Mountains and the Colorado Plateau, and on the west by the Sierra Nevada Range.

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