Mojave Desert
Picture from a New York Post article
By the Associated Press
This summer I visited the Mojave Desert. The Mojave Desert covers a lot of valleys and is stretched across a few states in the Southwestern United States. When I first arrived to the desert I was amazed by the size of it and how endless it looked. I saw that there were some life forms such as plants that were living there. Portions of the Mojave Desert were most likely the shorelines for lakes, streams, and marshes. The climate often gets hot in the summer and colder in the winter. Because of this the lakes and water sources dried up and left holes in the ground. I went on this trip with my family and I tried to explain to them that this desert was most likely located where it is because of the mountain ranges and the water that used to be there. I explained to my family that it was because of a rain shadow, meaning it was basically shadowed off from any precipitation.The sediments that I observed while I was there were gravel and many igneous rocks. I saw there were places where volcanic rocks and other materials had formed. There were carbonate rocks and granitic rocks. While I was there you could tell that this has been forming for many years and that the climate is always changing. The climate plays a huge role into the type of things you might see at different times. This is a beautiful place to visit and I would highly recommend it to anyone looking for something fun to do as a family.
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