Desert Textures

Here is a collection of desert textures that I have gathered over the last years. See if you can positively identify any of them. I will give you the answer at the end. They were collected all over the Mojave desert.

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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

#8 - Baked Mud - Valley of Fire.

#9 - Collared Lizards Back. (male)

#10 - Great Basin Rattlesnake, close-up.

#11 - Dodder, Death Valley.

#12 - Playa Mud at Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park.

#13 - Polished Marble in Mosaic Canyon, Death Valley.

#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.

#23 - Frozen Waterfall Ice in Zion NP.

#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.

#28 - Scales of a Red Coachwhip. (Red Racer)

#29 - Panamint Red (Speckled) Rattle Snake