Soil

__** Hot and Dry Desert **__
 * Soil in the hot and dry desert is very course textured
 * Shallow and rocky or gravely
 * Good drainage, beacause of this, there is no surface water.
 * The soil here has a very high pH because of the alkalinity.
 * Sand

[] **__ Cold Desert __** []
 * The soil in the cold desert is heavy.
 * Also very silty and salty.
 * Drainage is good.
 * Most of the salt has been leached out.
 * Contains alluvial fans where soil is relativly pourous
 * Silt