Socorro Basin
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The Socorro Basin is a geographical feature in Socorro Co., New Mexico. It defines the transition where the Rio Grande Rift system broadens into a series of parallel basins separated by intra-rift horst blocks.[1] Socorro Basin is hydraulically connected to rift basins to the north and south by flow-through drainage of the Rio Grande and southward flow of groundwater through alluvial sediments of the Rio Grande valley.[2]