Desert Terrain Type
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Hot and Dry Desert: Soils are course-textured, shallow, rocky or gravely with good drainage and have no subsurface water.
Semiarid Desert: The soil can range from sandy and fine-textured to loose rock fragments, gravel or sand.
Coastal Desert: The soil is fine-textured with a moderate salt content. It is fairly porous with good drainage.
Cold Desert: The soil is heavy, silty, and salty. It contains alluvial fans where soil is relatively porous and drainage is good so that most of the salt has been leached out.
Semiarid Desert: The soil can range from sandy and fine-textured to loose rock fragments, gravel or sand.
Coastal Desert: The soil is fine-textured with a moderate salt content. It is fairly porous with good drainage.
Cold Desert: The soil is heavy, silty, and salty. It contains alluvial fans where soil is relatively porous and drainage is good so that most of the salt has been leached out.