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Black Rock Desert , northwest Nevada, a dry lake in the Great Basin Desert
Aerial photo of the Painted Desert in Petrified Forest National Park , Arizona
A geological syncline in the Mojave Desert near Barstow , California
Unusual gypsum dunes at White Sands National Park in the Chihuahuan Desert
Saguaro (detail) of the Sonoran Desert . Photo by Ansel Adams , c.1941
Mustangs run across a Sagebrush steppe, Tule Valley , Utah
View of Indian Wells Valley , part of the Mojave (high) desert near Ridgecrest, California
Guadalupe Mountains in Texas 2006
This list of North American deserts identifies areas of the continent that receive less than 10 in (250 mm ) annual precipitation. The "North American Desert" is also the term for a large U.S. Level 1 ecoregion (EPA) [1] of the North American Cordillera , in the Deserts and xeric shrublands biome (WWF). The continent's deserts are largely between the Rocky Mountains and Sierra Madre Oriental on the east, and the rain shadow –creating Cascades , Sierra Nevada , Transverse , and Peninsular Ranges on the west. The North American xeric region of over 95,751 sq mi (247,990 km 2 ) includes three major deserts, numerous smaller deserts, and large non-desert arid regions in the Western United States and in northeastern, central, and northwestern Mexico.
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The following are three major hot and dry deserts in North America, all located in the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico .[2]
The Chihuahuan Desert is the largest hot desert in North America, located in the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico. Its total area is 140,000 sq mi (360,000 km 2 ).
The Sonoran Desert is a desert located in the Southwestern United States and northwest Mexico. It is the second largest hot desert in North America. Its total area is 120,000 sq mi (310,000 km 2 ).
The Mojave Desert is the hottest desert in North America, located primarily in southeastern California and Southern Nevada . Its total area is 22,000 sq mi (57,000 km 2 ).
The largest cold desert is the Great Basin Desert , which encompasses much of the northern Basin and Range Province , north of the Mojave Desert.
Other cold deserts lie within the Columbia Plateau /Columbia Basin , the Snake River Plain , and the Colorado Plateau regions.
Full listing [ edit ]
Desert ecoregions of North America.
Cold deserts:
Columbia Basin
Northern Basin and Range
Wyoming Basin
Central Basin and Range
Colorado Plateaus
Arizona/New Mexico Plateau
Snake River Plain
Hot deserts:
Sonoran Desert
Baja Californian Desert
Chihuahuan Desert
(listed from north to south)
Great Kobuk Sand Dunes three small deserts in northwestern Alaska, part of the Kobuk Valley National Park
Yukon - Carcross Desert , smallest desert in the world
Washington – British Columbia – Idaho – Wyoming – Oregon – Nevada
Much of the Columbia Basin is desert, such as the
Most of the Snake River Plain (ecoregion) is sagebrush steppe , but barren lava fields form small deserts, such as
The Wyoming Basin (ecoregion) is dominated by arid grasslands and shrub steppe , but also contains the
Owyhee Desert , in southwestern Idaho , northern Nevada , and southeastern Oregon .
Y P Desert , a portion of the Owyhee Desert in Idaho
Oregon High Desert , aka "Great Sandy Desert", eastern Oregon
Northwest Lahontan subregion in Nevada-part of the Northern Basin and Range (ecoregion)
Great Basin Desert
Colorado Plateau
Mojave Desert
Sonoran Desert
Chihuahuan Desert
Western arid regions of North America [ edit ]
The separately defined western arid regions of North America are continental regions of aridity based on available water in addition to rain shadow -diminished rainfall[3] and which have many non-desert shrub-steppe (EPA) and xeric shrublands (WWF) in addition to desert ecosystems and ecoregions. This large arid region of 190,000 sq mi (490,000 km 2 ) includes: deserts, such as the Great Basin Desert and Sonoran Desert; and the non-desert arid region areas (with greater than 10 inches (250 mm ) annual precipitation) in the Great Basin arid region , Colorado Plateau , Mexican Plateau , and others. This arid region extends from the top of the North American Desert in Washington and Idaho southward into Mexico in the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt . The 'western arid region' is east of and (except for Mojave sky islands ) discontiguous from the Mojave Desert,[4] unlike the southwestern Great Basin deserts adjacent with ecotones to the northern Mojave Desert.
See also [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
^ (1953 Meigs criteria)
^ "The World's Largest Desert" . Geology and Earth Science . geology.com. Retrieved 2010-04-25 .
R e t r i e v e d f r o m " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_North_American_deserts&oldid=1178800089 "
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