BAJADA - A broad, sloping deposit caused by the joining together of alluvial fans.
Lower slopes of mountains characterized by loose sediment and poor soil development.
Bajada - Joshua Tree National Park
Also see:
ALLUVIAL FAN, ALLUVIUM, PEDIMENT
More information:
Physiography - Mojave Preserve - California Mojave Desert
...Cedar Wash cuts through a joshua tree covered landscape of a broad alluvial apron (a bajada) grading down slope from the Providence Mountains (left) to the ...
Pediments and Alluvial Fans - Mojave Preserve - California Mojave
...Typically the fans formed by multiple canyons along a mountain front join to form a continuous fan apron, termed a piedmont or bajada. ...
Pinyon Well Junction - Joshua Tree National Park
...This is the alluvial fan at the upper end of the bajada at Alluvial Fans and Bajadas described previously. Further up this canyon is the site of Pinyon Well ...
Desert Spiny Lizard - Desert Wildlife
...This species is found primarily on rocks and in sandy desert on the lower bajada slopes, A dark, large head, a black shoulder wedge, heavy limbs, ...
Malapai Hill - Joshua Tree National Park
...A bajada is created when alluvial fans merge into a single slope. Eventually, a bajada may become buried deeply underground and consolidate into sedimentary ...
Bajada Nature Trail - Joshua Tree National Park
...Colorado Desert Plants....
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