Great Basin Desert
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The Great Basin Desert is part of the Great Basin between the Sierra Nevada and the Wasatch Range in the western United States. The desert is a geographical region that largely overlaps the Great Basi
Central Basin and Range from space (central-west Nevada region, view due-south)
Valley bottom at Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge
Sagebrush in the Virgin Mountains, Nevada
Pinyon-Juniper woodland in Elko County, Nevada
Mojave Desert
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The Mojave Desert is a desert in the rain shadow of the southern Sierra Nevada mountains and Transverse Ranges in the Southwestern United States. Named after the indigenous Mohave people, it is locate
Great Basin Desert
…Nevada and Utah, and extends into eastern California. The desert is one of the four biologically defined deserts in North America, in addition to the Mojave, Sonoran, and Chihuahuan Deserts. Basin and range topography characterizes the desert: wide valleys bordered by parallel mountain ranges generally…
Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes in Death Valley
The Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia) is endemic to the Mojave Desert.
A powerful High Desert summer storm sweeps rapidly across the Mojave Desert.
Las Vegas is located in the Mojave Desert.