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The Lechuguilla Desert is a small desert located in southwestern Arizona near the U.S.-Mexico border. It is considered to be part of the Lower Colorado Valley region of the Sonoran Desert . It lies in a north–south direction between the Gila Mountains and the Cabeza Prieta Mountains , and almost entirely in the Barry M. Goldwater Air Force ...
This subdivision is sometimes referred to as the Colorado Desert and encompasses much of southeastern California, southwestern Arizona, northwestern Sonora, and northeastern Baja California. The subdivision is characterized by minimal precipitation, and the area around the Tinajas Altas Mountains averages only about three inches of rainfall per ...
The deserts within the Lower Colorado River Valley region are the: Mojave Desert (California—Arizona—Nevada); Sonoran Desert (Arizona—California—Mexico), Colorado Desert and Yuha Desert (California); and the smaller Yuma Desert, Lechuguilla Desert, and Tule Desert (Arizona). All but the Mojave Desert are sub-regions of the Sonoran ...
Human remains found in 1976 by hikers in a shallow desert grave near Lake Mohave, just a few miles from the Arizona-Nevada border, have finally been identified. Police identify human remains found ...
Police in Arizona have determined that decomposed remains found in August 1992 in a remote desert area outside Phoenix were those of a missing 15-year-old, Melody Harrison. The Apache Junction ...
Human remains found in a desert in 1992 have now been identified as a missing 15-year-old girl, Arizona officials said. The “decomposed remains were found in a remote desert area” of Apache ...
Primary bed loads of poorly sorted gravel were deposited from present-day Yuma, Arizona to an area south of the present-day Sierra del Rosario mountains. As rifting of the Gulf of California progressed to the northwest, and uplift along the coast began, the river channel shifted westward, leaving primary bedload deposits in the former channel ...
The project was ultimately successful and helped produce more than 800,000 photos of enemy airfields and nuclear weapons sites. CORONA ended after 12 years in 1972, but many of the concrete ...