Great Basin

Great Basin, a desert plateau in the west of the United States, comprising most of Nevada and part of Utah, California, Oregon, and Idaho. It is triangular, the northern boundary, 500 miles in length, forming the base, and ehe Wahsatch Mountains and the Sierra Nevada skirting the eastern and western sides respectively. The distance from north to south is about 800 miles. It is orossed by several mountain ranges, and abounds in streams, most of which flow either into the Great Salt Lake or into Carson Lake. These and the other salt ltdces on the plateau arc cither evaporated or lost in the sand. There is little vegetation.