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Bookmark or Share- The Great Basin - U.S. National Park ServiceThe Great Basin Desert is defined by plant and animal communities. The climate is affected by the rain shadow of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Mountains. It is a temperate desert with hot, dry summers and snowy winters. The valleys are dominated by sagebrush and shadescale.
- Great Basin | Climate & Facts | BritannicaIt covers an arid expanse of about 190,000 square miles (492,000 square km) and is bordered by the Sierra Nevada range on the west, the Wasatch Mountains on the east, the Columbia Plateau on the north, and the Mojave Desert on the south.
- Great Basin Desert - WikiwandThe desert is a geographical region that largely overlaps the Great Basin shrub steppe defined by the World Wildlife Fund, and the Central Basin and Range ecoregion defined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and United States Geological Survey. It is a temperate desert with hot, dry summers and snowy winters.
- Great Basin - WikipediaThe Great Basin overlaps four different deserts: portions of the hot Mojave and Colorado (a region within the Sonoran desert) Deserts to the south, and the cold Great Basin and Oregon High Deserts in the north.
- The Great Basin Desert - WorldAtlasThe Great Basin Desert is a cold winter desert, and the 10th largest desert in the world. There are over 30 mountains in the Great Basin Desert whose summits are over 9,800 feet. The desert was first inhabited by the Great Basin tribes in 10,000 BCE.
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