page_title: Carson Desert
hierarchical_section_title: Carson Desert
caption_attribution_description: English: Timothy H. O'Sullivan's (c1840-1882) ambulance wagon and portable darkroom, used during the King Survey rolls across the sand dunes of the Carson Desert in Nevada in 1867.
context_page_description: The Carson Desert is a desert in the Lahontan Basin and the desert valley of Churchill County, Nevada, which receives an average 5 inches annual precipitation. The desert is the low valley area between the adjacent mountain ranges, while the larger watershed includes the interior slopes of the demarcating ranges. The desert was inundated by Lake Lahontan during the Pleistocene, and the watershed became part of Nevada's Conservation Security Program in 2005.
  This desert was the subject of a question on Eggheads, in 2012.
context_section_description: 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.  The desert is the low valley area (including the Carson Sink in the north of the valley) between the adjacent mountain ranges, while the larger watershed includes the interior slopes of the demarcating ranges.  The desert was inundated by Lake Lahontan during the Pleistocene, and the watershed became part of Nevada's Conservation Security Program in 2005.
  This desert was the subject of a question on Eggheads (TV series), in 2012.
caption: Timothy H. O'Sullivan's portable studio in the Carson Desert in 1867.
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