Sentences with phrase «internally draining systems»

Although one of the world's largest internally draining systems empties into the lake, Eyre fills up completely only a few times every hundred years.

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Using supercomputers, the researchers found that this dense piece of ocean floor material (called a lithospheric slab) is slowly sinking into the Earth's mantle and is responsible for the formation of the Lake Eyre Basin, one of the Earth's largest internally drained basins and home to the lowest point in Australia at 15m below sea level, as well as the Murray - Darling Basin, home to the largest river system in Australia.