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Still dreaming of... Highway 6 through Nevada, which passes through arid basins and ranges, one after the other, the product of a grand series of geological slumps -- as Kari Cooper explained to me: imagine a shelf of books with what is now the Sierra Nevada in California and the Wasatch Mountains in Utah as bookends. Those bookends pulled apart, causing the books in between to slump, creating the series of rises and depressions that we traversed -- all part of what is called the Great Basin stretching from California to Utah and Oregon to New Mexico, where all water is trapped, relegated to evaporation with no hope of reaching (in unchanged liquid form) an ocean.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 20:59:57 +0000

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