Nissan (river)
| Nissan | |
|---|---|
 The Nissan River running through Halmstad, January 2005 | |
| Location | |
| Country | Sweden |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Mouth | Laholmsbukten in Kattegatt |
• location | Halmstad Municipality, Halland County |
• coordinates | 56°39′20″N 12°51′00″E / 56.65556°N 12.85000°E |
| Length | 200 km (120 mi)[1] |
| Basin size | 2,685.7 km2 (1,037.0 sq mi)[2] |
| Discharge | |
| • average | 41 m3/s (1,400 cu ft/s)[1] |
| • maximum | 155 m3/s (5,500 cu ft/s)[1] |
The Nissan (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈnɪ̂sːan]) 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
- ^ a b c "Nissan". Nationalencyklopedin (in Swedish). Retrieved 12 July 2010. (subscription required)
- ^ "Län och huvudavrinningsområden i Sverige" (PDF) (in Swedish). Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute. Retrieved 12 July 2010.
- ^ Andréasson, Per-Gunnar; Rodhe, Agnes (1992). The Protogine Zone. Geology and mobility during the last 1.5 Ga (PDF) (Report). SKB technical report.
- ^ Lidmar-Bergström (1988). "Denudation surfaces of a shield area in southern Sweden". Geografiska Annaler. 70 A (4): 337–350.