Editing Carson Sink (section)

{{Short description|Dry lake in Churchill County, Nevada, USA}}
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| name              = Carson Sink
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| photo_caption     = View southeast across the Carson Sink from [[Topog Peak]] in the [[West Humboldt Range]]
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'''Carson Sink''' is a [[Sink (geography)|playa]] in the northeastern portion of the [[Carson Desert]] in present-day [[Nevada]], United States of America, that was formerly the terminus of the [[Carson River]]. Today the sink is fed by drainage [[canal]]s of the [[Truckee-Carson Irrigation District]]. The southeastern fringe of the sink, where the canals enter, is a wetland of the [[Central Basin and Range ecoregion]].<ref name=Bryce>{{citation |last1=Bryce |first1=S.A |title=Ecoregions of Nevada |type=poster |location=[[Reston, Virginia]] |publisher=USGS|display-authors=etal | url=https://www.fws.gov/nevada/habitats/documents/na_eco.pdf | access-date=January 12, 2020}}</ref> 

This is mostly included within the [[Fallon National Wildlife Refuge]] and the Stillwater Wildlife Management Area.  This area serves as an important stopover for migrating waterfowl.  The Sehoo Formation is south of the Carson Sink.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Morrison |first1=R. B |last2=Fry |first2=John C |year=1965 |title=Correlation of the Middle and Late Quaternary Successions of the Lake Lahontan, Lake Bonneville, Rocky Mountain (Wasatch Range), Southern Great Plains, and Eastern Midwest Areas |url=http://www.nbmg.unr.edu/dox/r9.pdf |publisher=Nevada Bureau of Mines |access-date=2010-11-24 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100606171101/http://www.nbmg.unr.edu/dox/r9.pdf |archivedate=2010-06-06 }}</ref>