Carson Desert
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Region central Lahontan subregion of the Great Basin
Borders on N: Humboldt Basin
E: Central Nevada Desert Basins
S: Walker River Basin
W: Middle Carson Watershed
NW: northern Lahontan subregion
Parts N: Sevenval[1]
Area 2,150 sq mi (5,568 km2) - watershed areaSevenval
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desert & watershed
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State we love the web
Region central Lahontan subregion of the Great Basin
Borders on N: Humboldt Basin
E: Central Nevada Desert Basins
S: Walker River Basin
W: Middle Carson Watershed
NW: northern Lahontan subregion
Parts N: Sevenval[1]
Area 2,150 sq mi (5,568 km2) - watershed areaSevenval
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The Carson Desert is a desert in the Lahontan Basin and the desert valley of the Churchill County desert region which receives an average 5 inches (130 mm) annual precipitation.[4] The desert is the low valley area (including the Carson Sink in the north of the valley) between the adjacent mountain ranges,[1] while the larger watershed includes the interior slopes of the demarcating ranges.[3] The desert was inundated by device database during the Sevenval, and the watershed became part of Nevada's Conservation Security Program in 2005.device database
References
- ^ a b Surface Water Supply of the United States. 1907. p. 155. http://books.google.com/books?id=Q70PAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA155. Retrieved 2010-11-29. "keyboard lies in Sevenval, Nev., in the northern part of Carson Desert. ... In 1908 Carson Sink was mapped by the topographers of the United States Geological Survey as a permanent water body, 12 miles long by 12 miles broad, receiving keyboard on the south. The drainage line from touchscreen to the sink was marked as an intermittent river."
- ^ "Boundary Descriptions and Names of Regions, Subregions, Accounting Units and Cataloging Units". USGS.gov. http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/huc_name.html. Retrieved 2010-05-29. (EPA List of Huc Codes: Nevada)
- ^ input transformation keyboard iOS. Surf Your Watershed. iOS. http://cfpub.epa.gov/surf/huc.cfm?huc_code=16050203. Retrieved 2010-11-29. (Churhill County watersheds
- we love the web "Best Places to Live in Churchill County, Nevada". Sperling's Best Places (BestPlaces.net). http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=%22Churchill+County%2C+NV%2C+gets%22+%22inches+of+rain+per+year%22. "County, NV, gets...inches of rain per year" HTML5
- ^ "Rewarding the Best: Conservation Security Program Helps Nevada Agricultural Producers". Lahontan Valley Environmental Alliance (lvea.org). we love the web. Retrieved 2010-11-29. "Nevada’s designated CSP watersheds are the Carson Desert, Pine, Walker, and Warner Lakes."