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The desert geology consists of sand seas near the coast, while gravel plains and scattered mountain outcrops occur further inland.
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* Guide to Sinai, covering background information on history, flora, fauna, desert, bedouin, safaris and geology of Sinai
Because of its location in the desert amid porous geology, Lake Powell causes huge evaporation and seepage losses.
Later a vast desert formed the Navajo and Temple Cap formations and dry near-shore environment formed the Carmel ( see geology of the Zion and Kolob canyons area for details ).
This examination is favored also by the desert climate of the region-there is no soil, little vegetation, and few cities or roads to obscure the geology.
desert and consists
The Great Victoria is the largest desert in Australia and consists of many small sandhills, grassland plains, areas with a closely packed surface of pebbles ( called desert pavement or gibber plains ) and salt lakes.
The central and southern coast consists mainly of a subtropical desert climate composed of sandy or rocky shores and inland cutting valleys.
The Channel Country section of the ecoregion lies to the northeast of the desert proper around the towns of Bedourie and Windorah in Queensland, and consists of low hills covered with Mitchell grass cut through with rivers lined with Coolabah trees.
In the desert the flora is very sparse and consists of grasses and thornbushes.
About half of Iceland's land area, which is of recent volcanic origin, consists of a mountainous lava desert ( highest elevation above sea level ) and other wasteland.
The vegetation of the CDP consists of mostly sparse desert shrub.
The landscape consists of desert with barely any water.
Most of the vegetation here consists of mesquite trees as well as trees such as the desert ironwood, palo verde and the huisache.
To the north, the desert leads into the Kaokoveld ; the dividing line between these two regions is roughly at the latitude of the city of Walvis Bay, and it consists in a narrow strip of land ( about 50 km wide ) that is the driest place in Southern Africa.
Earth consists of " grey cities linked by grey highways across a grey desert ", with the better-off living in floating Overcities ( called " Sky Cities " in The Mutants ).
The diet of the camel mostly consists of foliage, dry grasses and available desert vegetation that is mostly thorny plants growing in its natural habitat.
Magadan Oblast consists principally of mountainous desert, tundra, and taiga.
It consists of images of badgers doing calisthenics, a toadstool in front of a tree, and a snake in the desert.
Dhofar's area geographically consists of coastal, mountainous, flat, and desert areas.
The village of Chak Chak ( " Drip-Drip "), also known as Pir-e Sabz () " The Green Pir ", consists of a pir perched beneath a towering cliff face in the desert of central Iran.
Northern China is too cold and dry for rice cultivation ( though rice is grown there today with the aid of modern technology ) and consists largely of flat plains, grasslands, and desert ; while Southern China is warm and rainy enough for rice and consists of lush mountains cut by river valleys.
It extends roughly 200, 000 km², with an average elevation of 150 meters, and consists primarily of stony desert.
It consists largely of desert land, which for some time remained unfinished.
The Chimú resided on the north coast of Peru: " It consists of a narrow strip of desert, 20 to 100 miles wide, between the Pacific and the western slopes of the Andes, crossed here and there by short rivers which start in the rainier mountains and provide a series of green and fertile oases.
This woodpecker's habitat consists of low desert scrub typical of the Sonoran desert.
Most of the game map consists of the western desert of Libya and Egypt, and the various roads and tracks that were used for movement and supply.
desert and sand
Paleodeserts are large sand seas now inactive because they are stabilized by vegetation, some extending beyond the present margins of core deserts, such as the Sahara, the largest hot desert.
The southern part of the Red Sea coast, along with the Red Sea coast of Djibouti, has been described as the Eritrean coastal desert, a harsh sand and gravel coastal strip covered in dune grasses and shrubs that is important as a channel for the mass migration of birds of prey.
Predators of the desert include the dingo ( as the desert is north of the Dingo Fence ) and two large monitor lizards, the perentie ( Varanus giganteus ) and the sand goanna ( Varanus gouldii ).
Wan Caza sand dunes in the Sahara desert region of Fezzan
It forms as an evaporite, and is associated other evaporites such as calcite and halite ; if it incorporates sand grains as it crystallizes, gypsum can form desert roses.
As the area behind the coast is a desert, these winds can develop into sand storms with sand deposits in the Atlantic Ocean visible on satellite images.
The terrain is predominantly desert plains and sand dunes, with flat to rolling plains in the south and hills in the north.
Other roads range from all-weather laterite surfaces to grated dirt or sand Pistes, especially in the desert north.
The sparse population of the desert states made it wholly unlikely that many of these stamps would ever be used for mailing purposes, and earned them the name of the " sand dune " countries.
The surface of the desert ranges from large areas of sand dunes ( erg ), to stone plateaus ( hamadas ), gravel plains ( reg ), dry valleys ( wadis ), and salt flats.
In the north is the Ad Dibdibah graveled plain and in the south the ' Al Jafurah sand desert, which reaches the gulf near Dhahran and merges with the Rub al Khali at its southern end.
First, a layer or layers of sand accumulates as the result of sedimentation, either from water ( as in a stream, lake, or sea ) or from air ( as in a desert ).
Typically, sedimentation occurs by the sand settling out from suspension ; i. e., ceasing to be rolled or bounced along the bottom of a body of water or ground surface ( e. g., in a desert or erg ).
Through the 1980s, the war stalemated through the construction of a desert sand berm, the Moroccan Wall.
Other Martians arrive in sand ships, prompting Parkhill and his wife to flee across the desert in their own ship.
In a desert, for example, the wind deposits siliciclastic material ( sand or silt ) in some spots, or catastrophic flooding of a wadi may cause sudden deposits of large quantities of detrital material, but in most places eolian erosion dominates.
The park protects the northwest corner of the Mojave Desert and contains a diverse desert environment of salt-flats, sand dunes, badlands, valleys, canyons, and mountains.
Sometimes in summer the scirocco brings high temperatures and reddish desert sand from Africa.
Further south lies the Sahara desert ; here Tunisia touches the north-eastern edge of vast sand dunes comprising the Grand Erg Oriental.
These may vary from asphalt mountain passes to rough forest tracks, from ice and snow to desert sand, each chosen to provide an enjoyable challenge for the crew and a test of the car's performance and reliability.
The plateaus gradually descend toward the northeast to the barren El Djouf, or " Empty Quarter ," a vast region of large sand dunes that merges into the Sahara desert.
The turbine blades are highly sensitive to dust and fine sand, so that in desert operations air filters have to be fitted and changed several times daily.
The ears of a fennec are sensitive enough to hear prey that may be underground ; the soles of its feet are protected from the hot desert sand by thick fur.
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