Great Basin
The Great Basin (English Great Basin ) is a dry bulk landscape, the western United States between the Wasatch Range to the east and the Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range to the west across several U.S. states, but mainly in Nevada, extends. Smaller units have also Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Arizona and California. The boundaries of the Great Basin are defined differently: Under Big Basin ( engl. Great Basin ) refers generally to the fields that form a loose runoff catchment area. As the Great Basin Desert ( Great Basin Desert ) covers the fields in which predominates the characteristic vegetation of the Great Basin. Basin and Range is a geological region that is much larger than the actual pool and also covers the Mojave and Sonoran desert in Mexico.
Also one of the North American culture areas of the indigenous population is called the " Great Basin " ( Great Basin ).
Classification
The Great Basin consists of approximately 100 sub-basins or valleys, where there are many " mountain islands". It is characterized by steppe liable areas, stone and sand deserts, mostly dry lying streams and rivers, canyons, salt lakes and pans and a few small and large lakes (eg, Great Salt Lake, Utahsee and Pyramid Lake ). In the north of the Great Basin of the Humboldt River, under the edge of the Sierra Nevada in the west end in small endorheic lakes where the water evaporates in the desert air runs.
The valleys and sub-basins, which form their own septic catchment areas are: ( there is an area in several states, as is each of the named after the first indent, where the largest part of the area. )
- Nevada: Winnemucca Lake - Nevada
- Granite Springs Valley - Nevada
- Dixie Valley - Nevada
- Gabbs Valley - Nevada
- Big Smoky Valley - Nevada
- Diamond Valley - Nevada
- Monitor Valley - Nevada
- Litte Smoky Valley - Nevada
- Ruby Valley - Nevada
- Spring Valley - Nevada
- Steptoe Valley - Nevada
- Dry Lake Valley - Nevada
- Soda Spring Valley - Nevada
- Ralston Valley - Nevada
- Stone Cabin Valley - Nevada
- Hot Creek Valley - Nevada
- Railroad Valley - Nevada
- Cactus Flat - Nevada
- Sarcobatus Flat - Nevada
- Sand Spring Valley - Nevada
- Tikaboo Valley - Nevada
- Humboldt Sink - Nevada ( drains the Humboldt River, the longest river in the Great Basin )
- Nevada & California: Smoke Creek Desert - Nevada, California
- Massacre Lake - Nevada, California
- Pyramid Lake - Nevada, California ( outflow of Lake Tahoe on the Truckee River)
- Carson Sink - Nevada, California
- Walter Lake - Nevada, California
- Fish Lake Valley - Nevada, California
- Ivanpah Valley - Nevada, California
- Pahrump Valley - Nevada, California
- Surprise Valley - California, Nevada
- Madeline Plains - California, Nevada
- Honey Lake - California, Nevada
- Mono Lake - California, Nevada
- Crowley Lake - California, Nevada
- Eureka Valley - California, Nevada
- Death Valley (Valley of Death) - California, Nevada ( the deepest point in the U.S. )
- California: Buena Vista Lake - California
- Carrizo Plain - California
- Lake Elsinore - CA
- Eagle Lake - California
- Owens Lake - California
- Saline Valley - California
- Panamint Valley - California
- Inidan Wells Valley - California
- Searles Valley - California
- Antelope Valley - California
- Fremont Valley - California
- Coyote Lake - California
- Cuddeback Lake - California
- Mojave River - California
- Mojave Desert ( Mojave Desert ) - California
- Salton ( Salton Sea ) - California
- Nevada & Utah: Hamlin Valley - Nevada, Utah
- Pilot Creek - Nevada, Utah
- Thousand Springs Creek - Nevada, Utah
- Great Salt Desert ( Great Salt Lake Desert ) - Utah, Nevada
- Snake Valley - Utah, Nevada
- Escalante Desert - Utah, Nevada
- Utah: Pine Valley - Utah
- Tule Valley - Utah
- Rush Valley - Utah
- Tooele Valley - Utah
- Skull Valley - Utah
- Sevier Lake - Utah
- Beaver River - Utah
- Nevada and Oregon: Black Rock Desert - Nevada, Oregon
- Continental Lake - Nevada, Oregon
- Alvord Lake - Oregon, Nevada
- Oregon: Harney Basin - Oregon
- Summer Lake - Oregon
- Silver Lake - Oregon
- Lake Abert - Oregon
- Guano Lake - Oregon
- Butte Creek - California, Oregon
- Goose Lake - California, Oregon
- Oregon & California & Nevada: Warner Lakes - Oregon, California, Nevada
- Utah & Idaho: Curlew Valley - Utah, Idaho
- Utah & Idaho & Wyoming: Great Salt Lake ( Great Salt Lake ) - Utah, Idaho, Wyoming ( Bear River, Jordan River and Weber River)
History
While the lower layers of rock are from the Archean, the surface shape of the Great Basin is only about 17 million years old.
Due to an error in the measurement in the region of the Great Basin was believed until the 1840s that a Buenaventura River called the river connect to the Great Salt Lake to the Pacific Ocean.
Mountains
- Boundary Peak ( 4007 m) - on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada
- Wheeler Peak ( 3982 m) - in the 312 km ² large Great Basin National Park
Cities
- Reno
- Salt Lake City
- Provo
- Sparks
- Carson City