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    The Great Basin Desert is part of the Great Basin between the Sierra Nevada and the Wasatch Range. The desert is a geographical region that largely overlaps...
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    peoples of the Great Basin are Native Americans of the northern Great Basin, Snake River Plain, and upper Colorado River basin. The "Great Basin" is a cultural...
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    geographical boundaries of "Great Basin" regions but regional borders that vary from source to source.: 11  The Great Basin Desert is defined by plant and...
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    deserts in California: the Mojave Desert, the Colorado Desert, and the Great Basin Desert.: 408  The Mojave Desert is bounded by the Tehachapi Mountains...
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    the Mojave Desert, unlike the southwestern Great Basin deserts adjacent with ecotones to the northern Mojave Desert. Desert ecology Desert of Maine Deserts...
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    Salt Lake and the Nevada border. It is a subregion of the larger Great Basin Desert, and noted for white evaporite Lake Bonneville salt deposits including...
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    Sahara Desert, Grand Australian Desert and the Great Basin Desert, occur in low altitudes. One of the driest places on Earth is the Atacama Desert. It is...
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    and Utah. The Mojave Desert, together with the Sonoran, Chihuahuan, and Great Basin deserts, form a larger North American Desert. Of these, the Mojave...
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  • Toward the end of July 2017, Gary hiked to an unspecified area in the Great Basin Desert (Nevada). His starting point was the town of Ruth and his target was...
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    The Great Divide Basin or Great Divide Closed Basin is an area of land in the Red Desert of Wyoming where none of the water falling as rain to the ground...
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    have a cold desert climate. In North America, the cold desert climate occurs in the drier parts of the Great Basin Desert and the Bighorn Basin in Big Horn...
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    above): the basin of the Tarim in Xinjiang and the desert basin of Lop Nor and Hami (Kumul), as forming a separate and independent desert, called the...
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    cactus (Stenocereus thurberi). The Sonoran Desert is clearly distinct from nearby deserts (e.g., the Great Basin, Mojave, and Chihuahuan deserts) because...
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    Nations geoscheme. A part of the Great Australian Desert. Desert Desertification List of deserts by continent Polar desert Tundra United Nations Convention...
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    Ukraine Chihuahua Desert – a desert in Mexico and the United States Great Basin Desert Black Rock Desert Death Valley Mojave Desert – a desert in the United...
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    citizens to explore and cross the Sierra Nevada and the treacherous Great Basin Desert. The following year, Smith and companions were the first U.S. explorers...
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    The Great Lakes Basin desert steppe ecoregion (WWF ID: PA1316) covers the enclosed basin centered on Uvs Lake, a saline, endorheic basin (that is, no external...
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  • to its commonality of flora; The Great Basin Desert, another ecological region that is a subset of the Great Basin; This disambiguation page lists articles...
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    Mountains and Inyo Mountains, and is split between the Great Basin Desert and the Mojave Desert. The mountain peaks on the West side (including Mount Whitney)...
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    the north-west edge of the desert used to be a river. In the late Pleistocene, the Amu Darya used to flow beyond the Aral Basin to Sarykamysh Lake then to...
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    Great Basin National Park is a national park of the United States located in White Pine County in east-central Nevada, near the Utah border, established...
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    Artemisia tridentata, commonly called big sagebrush, Great Basin sagebrush or simply sagebrush (one of several related species of this name), is an aromatic...
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    part of the larger Great Basin Desert, however during the California Gold Rush the valley was often called the Forty Mile Desert. The Lahontan Valley...
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    Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub steppe ecoregion) of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats, situated in the Black Rock Desert–High...
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    in the Mojave Desert, Sonoran Desert, Great Basin Desert, and Chihuahuan Desert, as well as the Colorado Plateau. Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Joshua...
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    ledebouriana). The northeastern portion of the Dzungarian Basin semi-desert lies within Great Gobi National Park, and is home to herds of Onagers (Equus...
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    "Nest site selection in raptor communities of the Eastern Great Basin Desert". Great Basin Naturalist. 42 (3): 395–404. JSTOR 41711942. Root, T. (1988)...
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    continental United States to large desert lands and rolling plains in the eastern portion of the region. The Great Basin Desert is located in almost all of Nevada...
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    Cylindropuntia fulgida (category Flora of the California desert regions)
    southern Nevada and Utah, and in the very southern section of the Great Basin Desert of southern Utah. It also occurs just south of the east-west section...
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    The Great Victoria Desert is a sparsely populated desert ecoregion and interim Australian bioregion in Western Australia and South Australia. In 1875,...
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