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.
They are not areas of desert like the mojave, sonoran, and chihuahuan deserts. They are more similar to the great basin desert lands in northern Nevada and western Utah, and other neighboring areas on the Colorado plateau lke northwestern new mexico, northeast arizona, and eastern utah.