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
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
Lake Lahontan
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Lake Lahontan was a large endorheic prehistoric lake during the Pleistocene that occupied modern northwestern Nevada and extended into northeastern California and southern Oregon in the United States.
Carson Sink
…playa and it is held sacred by the Northern Paiute. The Carson Sink and Lahontan Valley formed the deep central portion of the Pleistocene water body Lake Lahontan between 45,000 and 9,000 years ago, the lakebed of which is now the Lahontan Basin. This Pleistocene lake varied in size between glacial periods (where…
Lake Lahontan lacustrine terraces, May 2010