User:Mmcannis/sandbox/Valleys of the Central Nevada Desert Basins

Shaded relief map of Humboldt River region, northern Nevada. (north perimeter, Central Nevada Desert Basins)

Valleys of the Central Nevada Desert Basins. Three valleys are on the southwest Nevada border; one is in the Walker Lake Basin. Death Valley is in the middle, not of the central deserts. Northeast is the Antelope Valley (California-Nevada) into the East Walker River. The other 2 valleys are south of Las Vegas, on the north perimeter of the Mojave National Preserve of CaliforniaPahrump Valley & Ivanpah Valley.

Some of the Central Nevada Desert Basins are on the south or southwest perimeter of the Humboldt River watershed-(basin).

List of valleys and basins

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Lone Creek Valley-Smith Creek Valley

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Endorheic valleys on the basins borders

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Some valleys and their Nevada locations

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Schellbourne
 
White.Watershed
 
Double
BM
 
Tonapah Basin saddle
 
Ivanpah
 
Big Kasock
 
 
CNDB points extend into the Mojave Desert.

The Central Nevada Desert Basins subregion (USGS Huc 1606) is a contiguous set of 15 Great Basin watersheds that drain into Nevada. The perimeter drainage divide of the subregion includes a serpentine section of the Great Basin Divide near the Utah state line (triple point with Great Salt Lake & Lower Colorado-Lake Mead subregions) to the California state line (Piute Watershed).

Triple Divide Points-Eldorado Valley divide transect

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The excursion of the Great Basin Divide-(see new map at Central Nevada Desert Basins), from the Spring Mountains, then to (north)-Ivanpah Valley-(north of Roach Dry Lake & Ivanpah Lake, further south), then to (endorheic) Eldorado Valley, results in a series of Triple Points, abbr. TP; they occur mostly around Eld. Valley. ( ? )

Known probable points
(terminal points at each end of 2-divide sections)

(from Spring Mtns)-The GRT-BASIN-DIV passes thru North Ivanpah Valley-(Las Vegas Wash Watershed-north; Ivanpah-Pahr Watershed-south, (ends at Roach Lake, adjacent the water divide-(i.e. GRT-BASIN-DIV))

  • -TP-1-(north McCullough Range)--1. Ivanpah-Pahrump Watershed(Ivan. Val.)-W & SW; --2. Las Vegas Watershed-NW & N; Eldorado Watershed-W & SW
  • 2-divide section
    **Las Vegas Watershed-N; Eldorado Watershed-S

2 extra-? Triple Points, if a 2-divide section between 1. Eldorado Valley, 2. Colorado River (Havasu-Mohave Lakes Watershed)

  • -TP-2-(north Eldorado Mountains)--1. Las Vegas Watershed-NW; 2. Eldoroado Val-W & SW; 3. Havasu-Moh Lakes Watershed-E
  • 2-divide section
    **Eldorado Valley-W, Havasu-Moh Lakes Watershed-E
  • 2-divide section
    **Eldorado Valley-N, (east)-Piute Wash Watershed-S
  • -TP-4-McCullough Mountain-[(south)-McCullough Range]-1. Eldorado Valley Watershed-NW; 2. Piute Wash Watershed-SE; 3. IvanpahVal..(Ivanpah-Pahrump Watershed)-W






Category:Central Nevada Desert Basins