The Mojave Desert (/moʊˈhɑːvi, mə-/ moh-HAH-vee, mə-; Mohave: Hayikwiir Mat'aar; Spanish: Desierto de Mojave) is a desert in the rain shadow of the southern...

(Stenocereus thurberi). The Sonoran Desert is clearly distinct from nearby deserts (e.g., the Great Basin, Mojave, and Chihuahuan deserts) because it...

main deserts in California: the Mojave Desert, the Colorado Desert, and the Great Basin Desert.: 408  The Mojave Desert is bounded by the Tehachapi Mountains...

arrows, baskets, and other articles of daily life. A fourth group, the Mojaves, used the local resources as they traveled along trails between the Colorado...

quantities of solar energy. English desert and its Romance cognates (including Italian and Portuguese deserto, French désert and Spanish desierto) all come...

from the Mojave Desert, unlike the southwestern Great Basin deserts adjacent with ecotones to the northern Mojave Desert. Desert ecology Desert of Maine...

Britannica. 24 May 2023. "Mapping Perennial Vegetation Cover in the Mojave Desert" (PDF). pubs.usgs.gov. USGS Western Geographic Science Center. 2011-06-01...

Mohave or Mojave (Mojave: 'Aha Makhav) are a Native American people indigenous to the Colorado River in the Mojave Desert. The Fort Mojave Indian Reservation...

High Desert or Mojave Desert by latitude, elevation, animal life, climate, and native plant communities. The cities and towns in the Low Desert include:...

Sonoran Desert in the United States and Mexico, Mojave Desert in the United States, Thar Desert in India and Pakistan, Dasht-e Margo and Registan Desert in...

2307/1790942. JSTOR 1790942. Bisson, J. (2003). Mythes et réalités d'un désert convoité: le Sahara (in French). L'Harmattan. Walton, K. (2007). The Arid...

The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa extending for 900,000 square kilometres (350,000 sq mi), covering much of Botswana...

especially toward the southern portion of the region; the more northerly Mojave Desert usually has only winter rains. The west coast Peninsular Ranges, or...

The Atacama Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Atacama) is a desert plateau located on the Pacific coast of South America, in the north of Chile. Stretching...

the Eastern Desert which extends east from the Nile to the Red Sea. The Western Desert is mostly rocky desert, though an area of sandy desert, known as...

America, in addition to the Mojave, Sonoran, and Chihuahuan Deserts. Basin and range topography characterizes the desert: wide valleys bordered by parallel...

Judaean Desert or Judean Desert (Arabic: برّ الخليل, romanized: Barr al-Khalil, Hebrew: מִדְבַּר יְהוּדָה, romanized: Midbar Yehuda) is a desert in the...

Travel in a Dead World, Eland. ISBN 1-906-01133-8. Monod, Theodore (1994). Désert libique, Arthaud. ISBN 2-7003-1023-3. Ahmed Hassanein Bey, (2006). The Lost...

Heteroplacidium acarosporoides (Mojave stipplescale) is a glossy reddish to dark brown or black squamulose lichen dotted with black perithecia that grows...

The Katpana Desert or Cold Desert is a high-altitude desert located near Skardu in District Shigar, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. The desert contains large...

Micro-organisms may also play a role in their formation. Desert varnish is also prevalent in the Mojave desert and Great Basin geomorphic province. Stony deserts...

The Great Victoria Desert is a sparsely populated desert ecoregion and interim Australian bioregion in Western Australia and South Australia. In 1875...

The Arabian Desert (Arabic: ٱلصَّحْرَاء ٱلْعَرَبِيَّة) is a vast desert wilderness in West Asia that occupies almost the entire Arabian Peninsula with...

The Cholistan Desert (Urdu: صحرائے چولستان; Punjabi: چولستان روہی), also locally known as Rohi (روہی), is a desert in the southern part of Punjab, Pakistan...

(South America) (in French) Battesti, Vincent (2005) Jardins au désert: Évolution des pratiques et savoirs oasiens: Jérid tunisien. Paris: IRD éditions...

Valley Mojave Desert – a desert in the United States Red Desert (Wyoming) Sonoran Desert – a desert in the United States and Mexico Colorado Desert Gran...

The Namib (/ˈnɑːmɪb/ NAH-mib; Portuguese: Namibe) is a coastal desert in Southern Africa. According to the broadest definition, the Namib stretches for...

A desert bloom is a climatic phenomenon that occurs in various deserts around the world. The phenomenon consists of the blossoming of a wide variety of...

"Empty Quarter") is the sand desert (erg) encompassing most of the southern third of the Arabian Peninsula. The desert covers some 650,000 km2 (250,000 sq mi)...

The Gobi Desert (Mongolian: Говь, ᠭᠣᠪᠢ, /ˈɡoʊbi/; Chinese: 戈壁; pinyin: gēbì) is a large, cold desert and grassland region in northern China and southern...