Questions tagged [desert]
concerned with the formation of deserts (areas receiving very little precipitation) and processes occurring specifically within deserts
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What would be the effect of bringing seawater pipes to the Sahara desert?
This is a childhood dream.
What would happen if pipes were installed (similar in principle to the Great Man-Made River, but for seawater) to continuously pump seawater into the Sahara desert.
Let'...
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Is this a former volcano in the Hamad Plateau, in the Syrian desert?
On my random explorations of google maps, I came across this interesting terrain:
(link to map here)
Apparently, this is part of the so-called Hamad Plateau, in the Syrian desert. If so, the rock ...
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What are these lake-like blue patches in the desert, visible in satellite image?
I found some blue patches in the Arabian desert in Google Earth. It looks like as if they were lakes with sand dunes rising out of the water. But there isn't water in the desert, at least not this ...
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Hypothetically, would digging a big trench from the ocean and flooding desert areas be a bad solution to combatting sea level rise? [duplicate]
My question is basically the title. Ignoring most of the feasibility of the enormous engineering and earthmoving requirements (I guess I mean to say, given an unlimited budget) in very hot areas, ...
