An extensive desert reclamation project is being implemented in this region using water from the Nile.
Extensive desert landforms interact with precipitation and wind to establish particle-size gradients.
Temperate East Asia (TEA) is characterized by diverse land cover types, including forest and agricultural lands, one of the world's largest temperate grasslands, and extensive desert and barren landscapes.
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The scincid lizard genus Scincus [1] is distributed over an extensive desert belt ranging from the African west coast (Morocco to Senegal) through the Sahara and the Arabian peninsula into Jordan, Iraq and SW Iran [2] [6].
It has a diverse topography with coastal plains along the Arabian sea, mountains and hills reaching 2000 meters above sea level, and the extensive desert of the empty quarter, the largest sand desert in the world.
Salt marshes are common along low seacoasts, inside barrier bars and beaches, in estuaries, and on deltas and are also extensive in deserts and other arid regions that are subject to occasional overflow by water containing a high content of salts.
Colonel Qadaffi's decision -- which would open his extensive underground desert facilities to outside inspectors for the first time -- followed private consultations with intermediaries to the West.
In western Zambia they are overlain by younger sandy deposits, relicts of a once more-extensive Kalahari desert.
This manuscript presents evidences that allow to reinterpret previously considered water-laid sediments to be accumulated as windblown deposits forming part of extensive erg (sandy desert) systems.
