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Desert is a color that resembles the color of the flat areas of a desert.. The first recorded use of desert as a color name in English was in 1920. [12]The normalized color coordinates for desert are identical to fallow, wood brown and camel, which were first recorded as color names in English in 1000, [13] 1886, [14] [a] and 1916, [16] respectively.
Sand dunes in the Rub' al Khali ("Empty quarter") of Arabia Valle de la Luna ("Moon Valley") in the Atacama Desert of Chile, the world's driest non-polar desert A desert is a landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions create unique biomes and ecosystems.
Panorama showing the transition of flat desert to dunes. Erg Chebbi (Arabic: عرق الشبي) is one of Morocco's several ergs – large seas of dunes formed by wind-blown sand. It is located on the far western edge of the Sahara Desert. [1] There are several other ergs in Morocco, such as Erg Chigaga near M'hamid.
The Great Sand Sea is an approximately 72,000 km 2 (28,000 sq mi) sand desert (erg) in the Sahara stretched from western Egypt and eastern Libya in North Africa. Most of the area is covered by sand dunes .
The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa extending for 900,000 square kilometres (350,000 sq mi), covering much of Botswana, as well as parts of Namibia and South Africa.
The desert environment seen today developed after these lakes dried up. The Mojave Desert is a source of various minerals and metallic materials. Due to the climate, there is an accumulation of weathered bedrock, fine sand and silt, both sand and silt sediments becoming converted into colluvium. [32]
The Kodar Mountains lie in the background. Dune in the Charsky Sands. The Chara Sands is an area of sand in Siberia near the Kodar and Udokan mountain ranges. [1] It is a small desert 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) wide by 6 kilometers (3.7 mi) long, located in the Charsk basin amid the valleys of Chara, Middle Sakukan and
Dune fields in the Australian desert. Sand dunes of the Empty Quarter to the east of Liwa Oasis, United Arab Emirates. A dune is a landform composed of wind- or water-driven sand.