Oasis Valley is a valley in the Amargosa Desert near Beatty in Nye County, western

Nevada Nevada ( ; ) is a state in the Western region of the United States. It is bordered by Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. Nevada is the 7th-most extensive, ...

. The valley forms part of the southern drainage of Pahute Mesa. The

Amargosa River The Amargosa River is an intermittent waterway, 185 miles (298 km) long, in southern Nevada and eastern California in the United States. It drains a high desert region, the Amargosa Valley in the Amargosa Desert northwest of Las Vegas, i ...

flows through the Oasis Valley between the Bare Mountains and the Bullfrog Hills to the Amargosa Valley.

Natural history

Oasis Valley is a portion of the Upper Amargosa Watershed. It includes geologic features of the Timber Mountain-Oasis Valley

caldera A caldera ( ) is a large cauldron-like hollow that forms shortly after the emptying of a magma chamber in a volcano eruption. When large volumes of magma are erupted over a short time, structural support for the rock above the magma chamber ...

complex of the Southwest Nevada volcanic field. The Amargosa Toad is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found els ...

to the Oasis Valley section of the Amargosa River, with its threatened population being successfully increased by local citizen efforts.NPR: "All Hopped Up: Town Unites For Toad Revival"
. NPR . accessed 11.10.2010

References

Amargosa Desert Calderas of Nevada Valleys of the Mojave Desert Valleys of Nevada Valleys of Nye County, Nevada {{NyeCountyNV-geo-stub