Textures of the Mojave Desert!

The Mojave Desert is the smallest of the four deserts in North America. 

It is, however, the hottest and driest desert in the Western Hemisphere.

A distinctive feature of the Mojave Desert is that it is one of 

the most mountainous deserts on the earth.

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The Answers:

#1 - Devil's Golf Course - Death Valley National Park - Salt Crystals - up to 12 inches high.

#2 - Eroded Mountain Terrain between Hoover Dam and Temple Bar from the air.

#3 - A Horned Lizards back - close up.

#4 - Eroded Sandstone in Valley of Fire State Park.

#5 - A Desert Tortoise's Shell.

#6 - Eroded Sandstone at the White Domes in Valley of Fire.

#7 - Lichen  -  Lichen is one of the oldest living organisms on the earth.

#8 - Baked Mud - Valley of Fire.

#9 - Collared Lizards Back. (male)

#10 - Great Basin Rattlesnake, close-up.

#11 - Dodder, Death Valley.  It only grows during wetter spring months and contains Beta-keratin.

#12 -  Polished Marble in Mosaic Canyon, Death Valley

#13 -  Playa Mud at Racetrack Playa in Death Valley National Park.

#14 - More eroded sandstone near White Domes in Valley of Fire State Park.

#15 - Up-close of a Chuckwalla's back.

#16 - Close-up of weathered Teddy Bear Cholla Cactus.

#17 - Sandstone shaped by wave action while still sand at Guano Point, Grand Canyon West.

#18 - Coyote Gourd.

#19 - The leg of a Tarantula.

#20 - The fur of a Gray Fox. (It had been hit by a car outside of Death Valley National Park)

#21 - A close-up of the back of a Western Fence Lizard.

#22 - A close-up of a back leg of a Jerusalem Cricket.  It spends most of the time underground.

#23 - Frozen Waterfall Ice in Zion National Park.

#24 - Salt Crystal Polygons in the bottom of Death Valley.

#25 - Badlands of Death Valley.

#26 - Juvenile Chuckwallas back.

#27 - Moonflower with sun shining into the back of the blossom.   Very poisonous!

#28 - Scales of a Red Coachwhip snake. (close-up)

#29 - Panamint Red (Speckled) Rattlesnake.  (close-up)

What a beautiful & wondrous world we live in!