What are the deserts of California?
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Here is one of the best websites on the deserts of the Southwestern USA, which includes desert life, some geology, and descriptions of the deserts.\nhttp://www.desertusa.com/flow.html\n\nCalifornia has some wondrous deserts, with miles and miles of open wild spaces. The main deserts in California are the Sonoran Desert, the Mojave Desert, and portions of the Great Basin Desert. Other names exist in common usage for some portions of these deserts. \n\nThere is also a list of good books on deserts on the DesertUSA website:\nhttp://www.desertusa.com/web_cart/db/pages/chi.html\n\nTo learn more about what conditions create a desert check out the UC Berkeley website on Desert Biomes at:\nhttp://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss5/biome/deserts.html\n\nThe USGS is another great resource for information on deserts:\nhttp://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/deserts/
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Where I live now would have been part of a fore arc-subduction complex. At that time the western coast of the area that is now the United States was near the California-Arizona border, and the California-Nevada border. The Sierra Nevada was just starting to rise. A number of islands existed off the west coast that later became part of the North American plate. \n\nThe entire area was just above the equator. The environment was a desert biome. Worldwide, temperatures were warmer than they are today. There were no icecaps on the planet.  The plants that lived in what is now Southern California were dry-adapted (xeromorphic) to live in the hot arid to semi-arid environment.  Some conifers, trees with veined lobed leaves (Ginkophytes), rarely ferns, cycadophytes which look like a palm tree were all likely found growing in microclimates near the coast where there was more rainfall. The most impressive forms of animal life would have been several species of suaropods, which fed on conifers, ginkos and cyads. These were the dinosaurs with long necks and tails. Stegosaurus might have been feeding in the vegetation, and a bipedal carnivore called Ornitholestes may have preyed on them. \n\nSea life would have been abundant, and marine crocodiles may have been common. Large ichthyosaurs (marine reptiles) that reached 2-4 meters made swimming hazardous. Plesiosaurs were also likely to be present in coastal waters and may have preyed on the crocs. Sharks were abundant.  Fish might have been of a group known as bony fish, of which the lungfish and coelacanth are modern survivors. In the air Rhamphorhynchus, a flying reptile probably caught fish like pelicans do today. In shallow sea waters there were some strange looking bivalves known as Diceratids that often built shoals like modern day oysters do. Sea urchins, starfish, and crinoids lived in the shallow and shelf waters. Dragonflies and damselflies were present; also ants, butterflies, and grasshoppers lived in the vegetated areas. \n\n\nTo see a paleogeographic map go here and scroll down to the 150 Ma plate:\nhttp://jan.ucc.nau.edu/rcb7/jurpaleo.html\nHere is another map:\nhttp://jan.ucc.nau.edu/rcb7/150NAt.jpg\nBiome map for Late Jurassic:\nhttp://pgap.uchicago.edu/data-models.html\nPaper describing climate of Late Jurassic:\nhttp://www.geo.arizona.edu/~rees/2004-1.pdf
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The Great American Desert.
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Desert - very dry, either hot or cold \nTundra - cool, treeless, and dry \nChaparral or scrub - coastal area with hot, dry summers and mild, cool, rainy winters \nTaiga or Coniferous Forest - cool and dry, with coniferous trees \nTemperate Deciduous Forest - cool and rainy, with deciduous trees \nGrassland - Windy, partly dry sea of grass with few trees, including tropical savanna, prairie, steppe, pampas, etc. \nMountina biomes: there are a lot of different biomes that exist on a mountains, from grasslands at low altitudes, taiga (coniferous forests) below the treeline, and alpine (the same as tundra) \nTemperate Rain Forest - cool and wet \nTropical Rain Forest - warm and very wet \nLand Caves - cool and dark \nWetlands - there are many types of wetlands, including swamps, marshes, moors, bogs, fens, sloughs, etc. \nFreshwater Marsh - a wetland located near creeks, streams, rivers and lakes \nTemperate ponds
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Well, if I can figure out your garbled sentence structure I think you are asking what people do to enjoy themselves during the summer especially in California?\n\n1.  Go to the beach.\n2.  Go to Disneyland.\n3.  Camp in the mountains.\n4.  Lie around the pool.\n5.  Play softball, baseball, frisbee, or tennis\n6.  Run along the beach
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California, where else can you have the beach (without worrying about hurricanes), the desert, the mountains, lakes, rivers etc... and all within a few hours driving distance.
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ok just a guess ! California!
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The Sonoran Desert is an arid region covering 120,000 square miles in southwestern Arizona and southeastern California, as well as most of Baja California and the western half of the state of Sonora, Mexico. Subdivisions of this hot, dry region include the Colorado and Yuma deserts. Irrigation has produced many fertile agricultural areas, including the Coachella and Imperial valleys of California. Warm winters attract tourists to Sonora Desert resorts in Palm Springs, California, and Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona.
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there are soem in the santa monica mountains and some in the san gabriels.....also can go to big bear a few really nice trails there
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It won't be Arizona, my friend. When San Andreas cracks open, and it will, the coast line will be on the Western Slope of Colorado, and I'll tell you why!!\nIn the middle of the Mojave Desert is a Nuclear testing plant, placed there by our wonderful United States Government (what a bunch of pricks). When the big one hits...say goodbye to about 1,000 miles of these United States (and parts of Mexico, too).
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The Atacamea Desert,\non coast of Chili----
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The Desert Ecosystem\n\nDeserts are very hot and dry places. Deserts get very little rain each year. So how do plants and animals live here? This section on the desert ecosystem will explain how! \n\nBut first, do you know what a desert looks like? It is made of sand and rocks. Sometimes the sand is red! There aren't a lot of clouds over deserts, so it gets really hot during the day and cold at night.
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I think that would be the Great Indian Desert. Read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_indian_desert
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In the northern part of the central valley of California.  Northeast of San Francisco.\n\nNot really that close to Nevada\n\nhttp://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?addr=&csz=sacramento%2C+CA&country=us&new=1&name=&qty=
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Mountains, plateau, deserts
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they grow in the desert states, high or low. I've seen them in Oregon, southern Idaho, Wyoming, South Dakota,
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i live in California.\ni think the best is the beautiful beaches\nthe great pacific coast clam chowah bowls\nseeing famous people in LA\nWarm weather\nHot guys/girls\nYosemite\nWhere are you at?\nI guess id still move away though, maybe Europe one day