Overall consumer food inflation during the month rose to 5.25 percent in October, government data showed Thursday. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) based inflation in August stood at 3.74 percent on cheaper vegetables, fruits and protein rich items, government data showed Monday.
Fact One. The Great Basin Desert is the largest U.S. desert at 200,000 square miles, occupying the land between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada Range, the Columbia Plateau, and the Mojave and Sonoran deserts.ost of the desert falls between 4,000 and 6,500 feet, but the land includes peaks that stretch above 13,000 feet. The Great Basinâs 7 to 12 inches of annual precipitation falls throughout the year, rather than during specific seasons, and occurs primarily as snow.
The Great Basin's longest and largest river is the Bear River of 350 mi (560 km), and the largest single watershed is the Humboldt River drainage of roughly 17,000 sq mi (44,000 km 2).o close a 1951 Indian Claims Commission case, the Western Shoshone Claims Distribution Act of 2004 established the United States payment of $117 million to the Great Basin tribe for the acquisition of 39,000 square miles (100,000 km 2). The Dixie Valley, Nevada, earthquake (6.6-7.1) in the Great Basin was in 1954.