Permian Basin Explained

Permian Basin is in geology the name of two large intercontinental basins that were formed in the Permian period, neither of which are in Perm Krai:

• Permian Basin (North America), a basin in the subsurface of the south of the United States, in west Texas and southeast New Mexico
• Permian Basin (Europe), a basin in the subsurface of northern Europe, centred on the North Sea