Carson River
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The Carson River is a northwestern Nevada river that empties into the Carson Sink, an endorheic basin. The main stem of the river is 131 miles long although the addition of the East Fork makes the tot
Carson River at Dayton, Nevada
Aerial view of the Carson River, looking upstream (west) across Lyon County, Nevada, toward Dayton, east of Carson, Nevada
The lower reaches of the Carson River near Fallon
Carson Sink
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Carson Sink is a approximately 300 square miles playa next to a swampy lowland, approximately 100 sq mi in the northeastern portion of the Carson Desert in present-day Nevada, United States of America
Carson River
…The Carson River is a northwestern Nevada river that empties into the Carson Sink, an endorheic basin. The main stem of the river is 131 miles (211 km) long although the addition of the East Fork makes the total length 205 miles (330…
View southeast across the Carson Sink from Topog Peak in the West Humboldt Range
The Carson Sink and the Lahontan Valley form the central portion of the lake bed of the prehistoric Lake Lahontan.
Image of Carson Sink in 1910.
Panorama of the Carson Sink