Escalante Desert
Escalante Desert | |
Desert | |
Escalante Desert looking southwest from the Lund Highway
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Name origin: Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, who explored the area in 1776 | |
Country | United States |
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State | Utah |
Part of | Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake watershed[1] of Basin and Range Province |
Highest point | |
- location | peripheral range[specify] |
- elevation | 5,700 ft (1,737 m) |
Lowest point | [2] |
- location | in Lund Flats ~1 mi northwest of Lund |
- elevation | 5,069.5 ft (1,545 m) |
Area | 3,270 sq mi (8,469 km2) [3] |
Biome | Deserts and xeric shrublands |
The Escalante Desert is a geographic Great Basin region and arid desert ecoregion, in the Deserts and xeric shrublands Biome, located in southwestern Utah.
Geography
The Escalante Desert is northwest of Cedar City in Iron County, Utah, and extends into part of Millard County.[4] The region spans most of Iron County, which annually has 13 inches (330 mm) rainfall and 5.9 feet (1.8 m) snowfall.[5] The Escalante region also lies primarily between State Route 56 and Route 21, as well as north and west of Interstate 15.
From the Escalante Desert region's peripheral ridges, the elevation slowly declines to Lund Flats (Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.),[4] which has railroad tracks between Milford and Lund.
Subsidence
Near Beryl Junction (Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.)[4] are 3 fissures formed by suspected groundwater-related subsidence caused by groundwater extraction for agricultural irrigation.[6]
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- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. 16,200 sq mi (42,000 km2)[1]
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. 5069.53 ft (Lund Flats)
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- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Escalante Desert (1440959), Escalante Valley (1440962), Lund Flats (1430016), Lund (1430015), Beryl Junction (1437499)
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