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Desert Basins Nourished by Mountain Snows:
The Mono Basin defines the western edge of the Great Basin Desert, an area of basins and mountain ranges that stretches across Nevada to the western front of the Wasatch Mountains in Utah.
Look around you. In every direction there are mountain ranges. These mountains surround Mono Lake, trapping its water in a basin. Water flows in from creeks created by the snow melt of the Sierra Nevada, replenishing the lakewater lost to evaporation. Like other terminal lakes in the Great Basin, under natural conditions water flows in, but does not flow out. |