Having part of the region located in a desert basin creates issues with air quality.

It was created roughly 100 years ago in a desert basin by flooding from the Colorado River.

Amateur astronomers with backyard telescopes are able to observe mountains and broad desert basins of the planet.

Far and near, the crash echoed and re-echoed all over the desert basin.

A predawn hush had come over the desert basin.

At that time, pluvial lakes filled many of the high desert basins.

Morning saw them riding deeper into the stony hills that ringed the desert basin they'd spent the day before passing through.

Fed by underground streams, it once covered this entire desert basin, more an ocean than a lake.

These larva swarm thickly in the salt lakes of the desert basins.

The Ana River provides critical riparian habitat in an otherwise dry high desert basin.