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The north end of the valley contains a large salt pan, or dry lake, Dry Lake or Eldorado Playa, while the southern two thirds drains northwards. [1] U.S. Route 95 traverses eastern portions of the valley, and climbs steeply to meet U.S. Route 93, connecting Boulder City to Henderson.
A two-page bill signed into law by the Nevada Governor Grant Sawyer on March 23, 1959, authorized establishment of the Desert Research Institute at the University of Nevada, Reno. [ 1 ] [ 6 ] UNR hired Dr. Wendell Mordy as the Founding Director (1960–1969) of the University's Desert Research Institute, which initially was an office at the top ...
The desert lies northeast of the Mormon Mountains, south of the Clover Mountains and west of the Tule Springs Hills. [ 2 ] The desert descends from an elevation of around 4,300 feet (1,300 m) on the foothills of the Clover Mountains west of Lime Mountain to around 3,000 feet (910 m) about 17 miles (27 km) to the south-southeast at the narrow ...
List of hospitals in Nevada (U.S. state), grouped by city and sorted by hospital name. Battle Mountain ... Desert Springs Campus; Kindred Hospital Las Vegas – Sahara;
It is located in the Summerlin neighborhood of Las Vegas, Nevada. As of 2018, the Summerlin Hospital offers 485 beds with private rooms. It is an accredited Chest Pain Center and Primary Stroke Center. The 40-acre (16 ha) campus also includes two medical office towers that provide a variety of outpatient services. [1]
The Carson Desert is a desert in the Lahontan Basin and the desert valley of Churchill County, Nevada (U.S.), which receives an average 5 inches (130 mm) annual precipitation. [2] The desert is the low valley area (including the Carson Sink in the north of the valley) between the adjacent mountain ranges, [ 3 ] while the larger watershed ...
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The Great Basin Desert is part of the Great Basin between the Sierra Nevada and the Wasatch Range.The desert is a geographical region that largely overlaps the Great Basin shrub steppe defined by the World Wildlife Fund, and the Central Basin and Range ecoregion defined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and United States Geological Survey.