What is 'Car Cross Desert' which is called the smallest desert in the world and new species are found one after another?

The car cross dessert in Canada is small, about 2.6 square kilometers in area, and it is called the world's smallest desert. Unusual ungulates (Yuu Tadu), insects and rare plants inhabit the car cross dessert, and experts say that new species have been discovered in recent years as well.

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The carcross village with a population of 301 people was founded about 4500 years ago, but the awareness from people was low, it seems that there was only the name recognition as a waypoint to go to another place. However, in recent years Car Cross Desert has been developed for sightseeing, so in the summer you can enjoy sandboarding, 4 wheel bike, hiking and more, as snow piles up, skiers and snowboarders aim for winter sports It came to come.

Although it is a car cross dessert with different faces now in summer and winter, Mr. Pangya Liposky, a surface geologist who works for the Yukon Geological Survey, said, "In the Wisconsin Glacial period from about 24,000 years ago to about 11,000 years ago The car cross was covered with ice of 1 kilometer thick. "

Lipsky said, "As the ice melts due to the rise in temperature, a large valley was created, a huge lake was formed, and as the temperature further rises, as the ice melts further and the water level declines, the neighbors Bennett Connected to the lake and other areas, the flow of water caused the carcross to change to land, and carcross dessert was born by sand on the beach of Lake Bennett on the wind and blowing on the car cross "It explains the history of the creation of car cross dessert.

He says, "The wind continues to blow from the nearby Bennett Lake towards the car cross dessert," and although it is a car cross dessert that is often thought to be born as a result of the lake drying out, in fact It is a special desert formed by a combination of glaciers, water and wind

Car cloth · dessert is also characterized by climate, Mr. Liposky said "Car cloth dries due to rain shadow, step climate has precipitation of only 250mm ~ 500mm annually.Due to not desert climate, sand is moisture Vegetation will never be resurrected because the sand of Lake Bennett is always being blown by the wind and carcross desserts are always in desert state It is a system to be maintained. "

Because of this special environment, the ecology of the car cross dessert is also special. In the car cross dessert, it is a habitat for wild doll sheep and white- tailed waggy, besides a ghostly silhouette's willow and spruce , and in the summer Yukon Lupinas and Baikal Sedge bloom, rarely Coast Dart You can see the rare species like Moth dancing in the sky. In recent years, five new species of galls have been confirmed, and researchers are also paying attention to the possibility that more new species will be found in the future.