Great Basin desert
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Great Basin desert may refer to any of the named deserts all or partly in the Great Basin
(e.g., Great Salt Lake Desert
, Escalante Desert
, Mojave Desert
, etc.) or to:
Great Basin
The Great Basin is the largest area of contiguous endorheic watersheds in North America and is noted for its arid conditions and Basin and Range topography that varies from the North American low point at Badwater Basin to the highest point of the contiguous United States, less than away at the...
(e.g., Great Salt Lake Desert
Great Salt Lake Desert
The Great Salt Lake Desert is a large dry lake in northern Utah between the Great Salt Lake and the Nevada border which is noted for white sand from evaporite Lake Bonneville salt deposits...
, Escalante Desert
Escalante Desert
The Escalante Desert is a geographic Great Basin region and arid desert ecoregion, in the Deserts and xeric shrublands Biome, located in southwestern Utah.-Geography:...
, Mojave Desert
Mojave Desert
The Mojave Desert occupies a significant portion of southeastern California and smaller parts of central California, southern Nevada, southwestern Utah and northwestern Arizona, in the United States...
, etc.) or to:
- Great Basin DesertGreat Basin DesertThe Great Basin Desert is an area of nearctic high deserts across parts of Nevada, California, and Utah that extends into the Colorado River watershed , but which is mostly a portion of the central Nevada desert basins of the Great Basin.It along with the Escalante Desert, Mohave Desert, the...
, a large area of the Great Basin which includes the Nevada salt deserts, 12 ecoregions in the Basin and Range valleys of Nevada; and the Central Nevada Desert, a hydrologic basin of several Nevada counties having <10 in (254 mm) annual precipitation - Great Basin ProvinceGreat Basin ProvinceThe Great Basin Province is a region of the Boreal Kingdom that generally corresponds to the Central Basin and Range ecoregion and the Great Basin physiographic section...
, in the Madrean Region of the Boreal Kingdom - Great Basin shrub steppeGreat Basin shrub steppeThe Great Basin shrub steppe ecoregion, within the Deserts and xeric shrublands Biome, includes various xeric shrub-steppe sub-ecoregions in the Great Basin region of the Western United States.It is within the North American Desert region, and includes much of Nevada, eastern and northeastern...
, an ecoregion of the western United States - North American Deserts, an EPA ecoregion generally corresponding to the Great Basin