Deserts

Deserts

Terms in relation to a type of cimate that has high average temperature, low average annual rainfall, and very few vegetation.

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Triassic Period

Natural environment; Deserts

208 to 245 million years ago when large predatory reptiles (dinosaurs) evolved.

Vizcaino Desert

Natural environment; Deserts

The Sonoran Desert on the middle third of the Baja Peninsula.

Great American Desert

Natural environment; Deserts

An ill-defined, semiarid region of the Great Plains, or, all of the North American deserts combined.

The northern three-quarters of Nevada, western and southern Utah, to the southern third of Idaho and the southeastern corner of Oregon. According to some, it also includes small portions of western ...

Brandberg massif

Natural environment; Deserts

Rising unexpectedly from the heart of the desert, Namib in northern Namibia, domed Brandberg Massif (Brandberg intrusion) is exhumed granite intrusion 2573 meters and covering the surface of the ...