Sentence examples for hammada from inspiring English sources

A similar area is the hammada, in which wind has removed most of the material, leaving only bare rock surfaces scattered with large rocks.

But to the south, toward the more arid interior, the plains become flatter and are protected by a veneer of stones the well-known stony desert with its mantle of gibber (hammada, serir, and desert armour).

Near the Moroccan border the land is composed primarily of flat, stony sandstone plateaus (hammadas).

The principal topographical features of the Sahara include shallow, seasonally inundated basins (chotts and dayas) and large oasis depressions; extensive gravel-covered plains (serirs or regs); rock-strewn plateaus (hammadas); abrupt mountains; and sand sheets, dunes, and sand seas (ergs).

Its physiography includes the large sand dunes of the Grand Ergs Occidental and Oriental in the west and northeast and the Tademait Plateau (a sandstone and limestone escarpment [hammada]) in the north.