Sahara and Lapland. Travels in the African Desert and the Polar World ... Translated from the French by Mrs. Cashel Hoey
... desert exist in it : the desert of the plateaus , or , the steppes ; the desert of erosion ; and lastly , the sand - desert ; each containing a different form of oasis . I feel much diffidence in entering upon the same subject in the ...
Desert Plant Life
... Desert Areas , * Dr. John Adams Comstock , Los Angeles Museum . Planting Wild Flowers from Seed , Lester Rowntree , writer and land- scape architect , presented by the Desert Magazine . Friday , January 15 - When The Desert Blooms ...
At the Desert's Green Edge
... desert specialists as pocket mice , Round - tailed Ground Squirrels , various lizards and snakes , and shegoi Larrea divaricata terrestrial insects . Even desert plants may find shelter here - nursling Saguaros , for instance , and many ...
Cadillac Desert
This edition includes a new postscript by Lawrie Mott, a former staff scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, that updates Western water issues over the last two decades, including the long-term impact of climate change and how ...
Deserts
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... desert and solitary , Bee SOLITARY . B. As substantive : 1. Lit .: A waste , uninhabited , uncultivated , or deserted place ; a waste , a wilderness . Specifically , the Deserts of Africa , Arabia , and Central Asia , which are arid ...
The Geology and Palaeontology of Queensland and New Guinea: Text
... Desert Sandstone list . Of the above , the following species of Pelecypoda are common to the Desert Sandstone ( including the Maryborough Beds ) and Rolling Downs Formations ; Maccoyella Barklyi , M. reflecta , M. umbonalis , M ...
Year Book
... desert plants with ref- erence to their power to abstract moisture from arid soils . The results of his work have not yet been formulated . Prof. F. E. Lloyd , of Columbia University , was occupied at the laboratory from June to August ...
A School Economic Atlas
... Desert 90 ° Table - land of Arabia Persian Gulf Dahna Desert 90 ° Baby bul Mande AFRICA of Aden Ural Mountains . 190 e Ishim Steppes a Mish Kirghiz Steppes Balkash Ust Plat 90 ° Aral Sea Turkonnan Derert Salt Plateau Desert of ran ...
The Living Age
... Desert and Egypt . In both of these chapters considerable space is devoted to the superficial charac- ters of the desert . The surface of the Sahara is divided by Professor Zittel , ac cording to its characters , into four kinds : ( 1 ) ...
The Christian Advocate
... Desert vast Mojave Desert , which is a very highly elevated plateau of sand , interspersed with salt lakes and alkali tracts . The scenery is relieved a little by nut pines , known as piñons , and by dwarf junipers , and sage- brush ...
American Glass Review
... desert country — it prob- ably is not but Utah deserts , at all events , are not bare stretches of sand and they are hilly everywhere they are not actually mountainous . Incidenally , these deserts are subject to washouts in the roads ...
Desert Geomorphology
... deserts . Though the overall relief is a product of tectonics , the landscape is modified by the desert climate , which is itself a little unusual since mountainous areas in deserts frequently receive more rainfall than the surrounding ...
Engineering and Cement World
2 Sign Posting in the Southern California Deserts By ERNEST MCGAFFEY Automobile Club of Southern California An " Old Timer " Reading an Old Time Desert Sign- A Relic of By - gone Days Automobile Club of Seuthermomia Route and Map ...
The Paradise Or Garden of the Holy Fathers
... desert he is able to see God " clearly . " 4. On one occasion Abba Ammon came during the season of winter to Abba Sisoes , and he saw that the old man was grieved because he had left the desert ; and Abba Ammon said unto him , " Why art ...
Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden
... desert slopes of the mountains of southern California from Tejon Pass southward to the Cuiamaca Mountains ( according to Gray ) , and eastward to southern Nevada . Lower Sonoran . Specimens examined : Mountains around Tejon Valley ...
Stratigraphic and Paleontologic Map of Becraft Mountain, Columbia County, New York
... Desert . In other words , there must be an extensive migration or drifting across miles of inhospitable land areas . He also finds mosquitoes , Corixa , small moths , house flies , and even May flies many miles in the desert ( 1926 , p ...
The Mining and Quarry Industries of New York State from 1919 to 1924
... Desert . In other words , there must be an extensive migration or drifting across miles of inhospitable land areas . He also finds mosquitoes , Corixa , small - moths , house flies , and even May flies many miles in the desert = ( 1926 ...
Ancient Egypt
... desert people of kens , Nubia ( 1762 ) , and of the desert for gold , or gold of Amen ( 1763-4 ) . Rarely there is the eastern desert named ( 1765 ) or the expert of roads at Hammamat ( 1766 ) . The deserts in general are mentioned ...