User:Tillman/Desert list

http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/cropmap/ecoreg/descript.html -- level 3 ecoregions, summary descrips

http://www.nps.gov/archive/moja/mojadena.htm -- lists 4 major NA deserts

http://www.desertusa.com/glossary.html -- lists 4 major, nice list of subdivs

http://www.runet.edu/~swoodwar/CLASSES/GEOG235/biomes/desert/namdesrt.html -- Rutgers, 4

http://instruct.uwo.ca/biology/320y/namdes.html UWestOnt, 4

http://www.conservation.org/EXPLORE/PRIORITY_AREAS/WILDERNESS/Pages/nadeserts.aspx Cons Int'l, 4

Edmund C. Jaeger, 1957, The North American Deserts: "Compares and contrasts the 5 North American deserts", including Gt. Basin & Painted (First ed. 1897)

- This is a list of North American deserts. There are four major deserts, in North America, all located  in the western United States and northern Mexico. These are:


 * The Great Basin Desert – the largest desert in North America, located primarily in Nevada
 * The Mojave Desert – a desert located primarily in southeastern California
 * The Chihuahuan Desert – the second largest desert in North America, located in the southwest US and northern Mexico
 * The Sonoran Desert – a desert located in the southwestern US and northwestern Mexico

Additionally, there are smaller deserts within the Columbia Plateau/Columbia Basin, the Snake River Plain, and the Colorado Plateau regions.