- Year Taken
- 1958
- Category
- Arid Zone
- Location
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Ubari Sand Sea
Umm Al Abyad, Libya - Credit
- ID. Goudarzi, G.H. 19:
- Filename
- ggh0019.png
- Description
- Playa lake in Fezzan. Aerial view of the saline lake at Nashnusha, about 60 km northwest of Umm Al Abyad in the Ubari Sand Sea. This lake dries up in the summer. In the background are the high sand dunes in step from several tens of meters high. To the right of center are the deposits of sodium carbonate in the bottom of the lake. The striped pattern results from troughs dug in the lake to concentrate the sodium carbonate. Libya. ca. 1958.
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