Socorro Basin

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geologic basin tectonic depression

Socorro Basin is a geologic depression in central New Mexico that forms part of the Rio Grande Rift and hosts significant sedimentary deposits and geothermal activity.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Socorro Basin canonical 1
Socorro Basin region 1

Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf geologic basin ⓘ
tectonic depression ⓘ
associatedWith Rio Grande ⓘ
surface form: Rio Grande River
contains Cenozoic sedimentary rocks ⓘ
volcanic rocks ⓘ
country United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
formedBy crustal extension ⓘ
rifting ⓘ
geologicAge Cenozoic ⓘ
geologicProvince Rio Grande Rift ⓘ
hasActivity geothermal activity ⓘ
hasDeposits sedimentary deposits ⓘ
hasGeologicFeature normal faults ⓘ
rift-related subsidence ⓘ
sedimentary basin ⓘ
hasProcess active faulting ⓘ
hydrothermal circulation ⓘ
ongoing subsidence ⓘ
hasResource geothermal energy ⓘ
hasSignificance geothermal resource potential ⓘ
rift tectonics research ⓘ
sedimentary basin analysis ⓘ
locatedIn United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States

central New Mexico ⓘ
near Socorro, New Mexico ⓘ
partOf Rio Grande Rift ⓘ
studiedInDiscipline geology ⓘ
geophysics ⓘ
seismology ⓘ
tectonicSetting continental rift ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Socorro Basin
Description of subject: Socorro Basin is a geologic depression in central New Mexico that forms part of the Rio Grande Rift and hosts significant sedimentary deposits and geothermal activity.

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Rio Grande Rift → contains → Socorro Basin ⓘ
Socorro, New Mexico → locatedIn → Socorro Basin ⓘ
this entity surface form: Socorro Basin region