Post #122783 by Gigantalope on Sat, Oct 30, 2004 11:30 PM

Great Basin...one of the most magnificent places on earth...you know...geologicaly.

I'm sure you know it wasn't that long ago that Western Nevada had Rhinos and Camels trotting around it floridian fern forrests.

Quickly (for Mtns) the Sierras have risen, and are moving away from the Rockies, as well as taking all the moisture that once went over them but can't now.

The ranges in between the Sierras and Rockies run North to South (except where the Uentas and Wastatch meet) and occur about every 40 miles. They often are described as looking like a ships convoy. On thier peaks where mositur does collect, there are small animals who are now trapped in the mountian tops because they can't survive in the arrid deserts below, and over the past few million years, they have evolved into different species, just like Darwin's in the Galapagos, and Alfred Russell Wallace's in Indonesia.

It's all rite there in the Great Basin...and whore houses are legal in Nevada!