GEOG 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Great Salt Lake, Douglas Holding, Donner Pass
29 Mar 2017
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Great basin: the lay of the land. Areas: columbia river (snake river tributary, colorado river, california rivers, great basin. 500 miles east to west and also north to south. Mountain is the predominant structure of the interior of the basin. Sparsely inhabited and arid land but with some great exceptions: many parts of it very fit for the residence of a civilized people , wasatch mountains, wasatch oasis at the base, sierra nevada mountains, snake river divide. High rainfall areas correlate with mountain ranges. Jordan river great salt lake: humbaldt river, rises in the snake river divide, routes across the great basin. Channels in which the stream of humanity most easily moves . Natural conditions effecting the way routes are established (direction, velocity, and volume) Mountains and canyonlands: canyonlands and the colorado. The grand canyon: between the southern rockies and the wasatch. Colorado river is between high mountains and precipices a large portion of its course : vastly unexplored region.
