Did you Think Desert was all Sand?

Did you Think Desert was all Sand?... more

by Bob and Nadine Johnston

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Did you Think Desert was all Sand?

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Bob and Nadine Johnston

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Did you Think Desert was all Sand?
The Sonoran Desert is a North American desert that covers large parts of the Southwestern United States in Arizona and California. It is the hottest desert in North America, with an area of 110,000 sq mi. The western portion of the United States–Mexico border passes through the Sonoran Desert.

The desert contains a variety of unique and endemic plants and animals, such as the Saguaro and Organ Pipe cactus.

The desert wraps around the northern end of the Gulf of California, Central Gulf Coast subregion on east to southern tip, north through much of Arizona, excluding the central northwest mountains and Pacific west coast, through southeastern California and southwestern and southern Arizona to western and central parts of Sonora.

It is bounded on the west by the Peninsular Ranges, which separate it from the California chaparral and woodlands (northwest) and ecoregions of the Pacific slope. To the north in California and northwest Arizona... The Sonoran Desert transitions to the colder-winter, higher-elevation Mojave, Great Basin, and Colorado Plateau deserts.

To the North and Northeast, the deserts transition to the coniferous Arizona Mountains forests with Ponderosa Pines which can grow to over 265 feet and Sierra Madre and Sierra Madre Occidental pine–oak forests at higher elevations.

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September 1st, 2014