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    A sabkha (Arabic: سبخة) is a coastal, supratidal mudflat or sandflat in which evaporite-saline minerals accumulate as the result of semiarid to arid climate...
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    Al Sabkha (Arabic: السبخة) is a locality in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). Al Sabkha is a small community between Al Rigga, Naif, Al Dhagaya and Al...
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  • 25.394; 50.845 Dukhan Sabkha, located in the northern section of the Dukhan region in western Qatar, is the largest inland sabkha (salt-flat) ecosystem...
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    locally as sabkhas) have formed near the coast. The coastline from Mesaieed to Khawr al Udayd is particularly rich in sabkhas. Inland sabkhas can be found...
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  • and white. East of the city, the salt-crusted coastal plains, known as sabkha, give way to a north–south running line of dunes. Farther east, the dunes...
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    Sabkha Mosque (Arabic: جامع السبخة) is a Tunisian mosque in the south of the medina of Tunis in Bab Jaziza suburb. It is located in 59 El Sabkha Street...
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    system are the mountain watershed, the dune field, the sand sheet, and the sabkha. Ecosystems within the mountain watershed include alpine tundra, subalpine...
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    a fallback Dry lake – Area that contained a standing surface water body Sabkha – Salt lake above the tide line, where evaporite deposits accumulate Salt...
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    and white. East of the city, the salt-crusted coastal plains, known as sabkha, give way to a north–south running line of dunes. Farther east, the dunes...
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    minerals are present) and clay pans. In Arabic, a salt flat is called a sabkha (also spelled sabkhah, subkha or sebkha) or shott (chott). In Central Asia...
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    devoid of vegetation but are rich in iron.[citation needed] The halophytic sabkha type desert vegetation is predominant in Muscat. The Qurum Nature Reserve...
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    they begin on the distal portions of alluvial fans and extend to inland sabkhas or dry lakes. In basin and range topography, wadis trend along basin axes...
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    total distance from Abu Dhabi to Moreeb Dune is about 250 km. Liwa Oasis Sabkha "Liwa Festival 2009". 25 January 2009. "Etisalat Propels Liwa Festival to...
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    This would return the Qattara Depression to its current state but with its sabkha soils tens of meters higher, allowing for salt mining. The concept calls...
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    eastern regions; seawater intrusion in the eastern region; intrusion of sabkha water in the southwestern region; and irrigation return flow in a local...
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    extend through Dukhan. A sabkha (salt flat) ecosystem known as the Dukhan Sabkha is found in the northern section. This sabkha, considered the largest...
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    high tide inundates the coastal sabkhas as a thin sheet of water up to a few hundred metres rather than flooding the sabkhas through a network of channels...
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    move and is becoming more of a Playa or Sabkha than a lake. Between Port Said and Rafah are three main sabkha which extend from west to east: Sabkhat...
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  • playas) may refer to: Endorheic basin, also known as a sink, alkali flat or sabkha, a desert basin with no outlet which periodically fills with water to form...
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    the moisture leaching up into the base of the dunes from the surrounding sabkhas.: 213  Along the middle length of the desert, there are several raised...
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    provincial seat, the town of Naâma. The region is dominated by a large sabkha. There is an airport in Mécheria. The province was created from Saïda Province...
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    p. 158. ISBN 3540578919. Briere, Peter R. (2000). "Playa, playa lake, sabkha: Proposed definitions for old terms". Journal of Arid Environments. 45 (1):...
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    Machine. Highly detailed view of the Creek on a length of 3 km from Al Sabkha Rd to Chamber of Commerce. "Dubai Creek Park" Archived 20 February 2016...
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  • Al-Aba Oasis (section Sabkha)
    Al-Aba’a.  So Abu Saeed preceded him to me with water, and the length of this sabkha is seven miles, and between it and Basra is seven days, and it is two days...
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    this process took place. A variant of this model has been proposed for sabkha environments in which brine is sucked up into the dolomitizing limestone...
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    British microbiologist, Prof. Anthony E. Walsby, from samples taken from the Sabkha Gavish, a brine lake in southern Sinai, Egypt. This discovery is formally...
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    closest station to the neighbourhood of Naif and the eastern section of Al Sabkha. Nearby points of interest include the Deira Twin Towers and a number of...
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  • of ground covered with salt and other minerals, usually found in deserts Sabkha, a phonetic translation of the Arabic word for a salt pan (geology) Salt...
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  • Rigga is a residential and commercial centre. Al Rigga is bordered by Al Sabkha, Al Muraqqabat and Naif and bounded to the south by Dubai Creek. Al Rigga...
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    Connections RTA Dubai  13  Gold Souq Bus Stn - Al Qusais DM Housing  17  Al Sabkha Bus Stn - Muhaisnah 4, Wasl Oasis 2  31  Airport Terminal 2 - Oud Al Mateena...
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