Nissan (river)

Nissan
River
The Nissan River running through Halmstad, January 2005
Country Sweden
Mouth Laholmsbukten in Kattegatt
 - location Halmstad Municipality, Halland County
 - coordinates 56°39′20″N 12°51′00″E / 56.65556°N 12.85000°E / 56.65556; 12.85000Coordinates: 56°39′20″N 12°51′00″E / 56.65556°N 12.85000°E / 56.65556; 12.85000
Length 200 km (124 mi) [1]
Basin 2,685.7 km2 (1,037 sq mi) [2]
Discharge
 - average 41 m3/s (1,448 cu ft/s) [1]
 - max 155 m3/s (5,474 cu ft/s) [1]
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The Nissan (Swedish pronunciation: [²nɪsːan]) is a 200 km long river in southwest Sweden. It ends in the Kattegat bay of the North Sea in Halmstad. The straight middle and upper course of Nissan follows a branch of the Protogine Zone – a zone of crustal weakness in western Sweden.[3] Nissan drains the western part of the South Småland peneplain.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Nissan". Nationalencyklopedin (in Swedish). Retrieved 12 July 2010. (subscription required)
  2. "Län och huvudavrinningsområden i Sverige" (PDF) (in Swedish). Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute. Retrieved 12 July 2010.
  3. Andréasson, Per-Gunnar; Rodhe, Agnes (1992). The Protogine Zone. Geology and mobility during the last 1.5 Ga (PDF) (Report). SKB technical report.
  4. Lidmar-Bergström (1988). "Denudation surfaces of a shield area in southern Sweden". Geografiska Annaler. 70 A (4): 337–350.
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