The sandy landscape in a desert contains very few stream channels.
On the third day after our arrival, we departed to Penoyer Valley [Sand Spring Valley], an arid desert containing a large playa in the center, surrounded on all sides by mountains of which the Timpah-utah Range is the highest.
The human 8q24 region includes a gene desert containing enhancers forming chromatin loops with the MYC promoter located several hundred kilobases telomerically.
The size and placement of reserves is the source of bitter controversy, because the ocean is essentially a vast, wet, barren blue desert, containing relatively small oases where the food chain flourishes and fish of every kind congregate.
Arizona police were investigating a black bag found in the desert containing ammunition and believed to belong to Loughner.
Nearly the entire country is desert, containing broad areas of sand.
The Rohri Hills, located at the Indus River margins of the desert, contain a group of sites associated with sources of chert, a type of stone that is a principal raw material for making tools and weapons.
Palmyra, pearl of the desert, contains the ruins of a great city.
A chunk of space rock found in the Arizona desert contains living alien organisms that evolve quickly, say, 200 million years in a few hours.
The Thar desert contains possibly the world's third-largest coal reserves.
Found between the states of Durango, Chihuahua, and Coahuila, it is believed this expanse of desert contains enormous mineral deposits, which seem to generate potent electromagnetic fields that impede radio waves.
