• Crossing the plains and deserts by horseback, wagon, or train may have exposed settlers to airborne fungal spores that can cause valley fever. (cdc.gov)
  • In the United States, TBRF often occurs west of the Mississippi River, particularly in the mountains of the West and the high deserts and plains of the Southwest. (medlineplus.gov)
  • To the south, beyond the Bahariya oasis lies the Black Desert, an area of black volcanic hills and dolerite deposits. (wikipedia.org)
  • Giza Plateau Great Sand Sea Black Desert White Desert The Giza Plateau (هضبة الجيزة) is a plateau in Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt, at the edges of the Western Desert, site of the Fourth Dynasty Giza Necropolis, which includes the Great Pyramids of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure, the Great Sphinx, several cemeteries, a workers' village and an industrial complex. (wikipedia.org)
  • Amid the hills is the Black Desert where the golden sand is littered with tiny black stones. (touregypt.net)
  • The change in the desert floor from beige to black, 50km south of Bawiti, signals the beginning of the Black Desert. (lonelyplanet.com)
  • We visit the Black Desert, which got its name due to the color of the rocks and mountains located there. (sharm-club.com)
  • After lunch in Bahariya you will head to the White Desert , passing through the Black Desert and the Valley of El Haize with its famous spring. (egyptiantravelmakers.com)
  • On February 26, 2017, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 captured these natural-color images of East Oweinat, one of Egypt's land reclamation projects aimed at making some desert areas suitable for agriculture. (nasa.gov)
  • But for now, that water means plants can flourish in the driest of deserts. (nasa.gov)
  • The Western Desert of Egypt is an area of the Sahara that lies west of the river Nile, up to the Libyan border, and south from the Mediterranean Sea to the border with Sudan. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the south-west, near the point where the borders of Libya, Sudan and Egypt meet, is an area of desert glass, thought to have been formed by a meteorite strike at Kebira, over the border in Libya. (wikipedia.org)
  • The sea is divided by a long peninsula of rocky desert along the border, leaving the eastern lobe in Egypt and the western in Libya, where it is called the Calanshio desert. (wikipedia.org)
  • With the formation of the state of Libya, the term "Western Desert" has come to describe the part of the Sahara in Egypt. (wikipedia.org)
  • This became a misnomer during colonial times when Cyrenaica and the land to the west was organized as the Italian colony of Libya in 1911, and the term Western Desert used to describe the area within Egypt became more common. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, during the Second World War the term Western Desert came to apply not only to the coastal desert of Egypt but also to the area fought over in Libya, ranging beyond the Egypt-Libya border to Gazala, Cyrenaica and even El Agheila. (wikipedia.org)
  • The contemporary use of the term refers to the entire desert in Egypt west of the Nile. (wikipedia.org)
  • Dutch Shell company is close to finalising the sale of its existing oil assets and natural gas concession areas in the Western Desert, which represent about 80% of its assets in Egypt. (dailynewsegypt.com)
  • Greenery sprouts from the Sahara Desert in Egypt thanks to the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System. (nasa.gov)
  • The Western Desert Gas Complex and the Amreya Butane Factory, which are both run by the Egyptian Natural Gas Company (GASCO), produced 26.6 million tons of petroleum products since the start of operations, said Yasser Salah, head of GASCO, Egypt Oil & Gas reports. (egyptoil-gas.com)
  • Paleokarst shafts in the western desert of Egypt: A unique landscapeThe Eocene limestone plateau of the Western Desert of Egypt has various karst features, including shafts created during ancient wet periods. (zrc-sazu.si)
  • This stage led to remove the epikarst zone, and reshaped the area to create a hilly landscape penetrated by infilled shafts.Keywords: Egypt, the Western Desert, karst, shafts, epikarst. (zrc-sazu.si)
  • This desert is the largest of all, it covers the enormous extension that goes from the Nile eastwards to the border with Chad westwards and from the border with Egypt northwards as far as Sahel that bounds the desert southwards. (italtoursudan.com)
  • Founded in 1987, Desert Gatherings® is a family owned business passionate about preserving the history and ecology of the beautiful Southwest. (desertgatherings.com)
  • Beyond this, north of Farafra, lies the White Desert, an area of wind-sculpted chalk rock formations, which give the area its name. (wikipedia.org)
  • In contrast to Baharia, Farafra Oasis, another hundred miles along the route, has a White Desert. (touregypt.net)
  • Giant white chalk monoliths rise from a pure white desert floor, while smaller outcroppings looking like donkeys, camels, and Bedouin, enchant the visitor with their humor. (touregypt.net)
  • The final stop of the day will be the most attractive as we visit the White Desert. (sharm-club.com)
  • Overnight camping in White Desert. (egyptiantravelmakers.com)
  • Great Sandy Desert , arid wasteland of northern Western Australia that is Australia's second largest desert , after the Great Victoria Desert . (britannica.com)
  • Farafra holds the most mysteries in the desert. (touregypt.net)
  • We continue our trip towards the Farafra Oasis, on our way let's visit the crystal mountain, one of the most famous attractions of the Western desert. (sharm-club.com)
  • in the north and west, the Matrouh Governorate administers the area from the Mediterranean south to approx 27°40' N latitude, and the New Valley Governorate from there to the Sudan border, while in the east parts of the Western Desert lie in the Giza, Fayyum, Beni Suef, and Minya Governorates. (wikipedia.org)
  • The morphology of this territory is different from the other deserts in Sudan in the northern region: mainly level ground, with few sandy formations and no volcanic rocks. (italtoursudan.com)
  • The Great Sandy Desert extends from Eighty Mile Beach on the Indian Ocean eastward into Northern Territory and from Kimberley Downs southward to the Tropic of Capricorn and the Gibson Desert. (britannica.com)
  • The Great Sandy Desert, located north-central Western Australia, is the second largest desert environment in Australia. (lu.se)
  • Linguistically, the people traditionally living in the Great Sandy Desert are speakers of multiple Western Desert Languages (of the Pama-Nyungan family). (lu.se)
  • Egyptian Western desert safari tour for 8 days via Bahariya, Dakhla and Kharga oases to Luxor. (sharm-club.com)
  • Americans seem to think they had no part in its development, but a rag tag group of Marines and sailors crossed the Western Desert from Alexandria to Derna (in Libya) in 1805 in one of the most amazing military expeditions in history. (touregypt.net)
  • The complex exported 5 million tons of propane and supported the petrochemical industry with 10 million tons of ethane-propane mix, the head of GASCO said during a visit by the Minister of Petroleum, Tarek El Molla, to the Western Desert Gas Complex in Alexandria. (egyptoil-gas.com)
  • ‍The Italian company, Eni, announced the discovery of a new petroleum well in the concessions of the Mleiha, western desert. (egyptindependent.com)
  • He stressed that the company intends to progress in tenders of exploration areas located in the Mediterranean and Nile Delta during the next year after the sale of its concessions in Western Desert. (dailynewsegypt.com)
  • We speculate that this difference is possibly caused by more challenging conditions in the western part of the Sahara Desert, such as the lack of suitable day-time roost sites. (lu.se)
  • It is named in contrast to the Eastern Desert which extends east from the Nile to the Red Sea. (wikipedia.org)
  • K-7 is the main exit to the Eastern Desert. (somepage.com)
  • However, deserts typically do not have much preserved organic material, so paleoclimatic records from deserts are less common. (western.edu)
  • Leah Robinson and her Martu families love to hunt sand goannas in the western desert region of WA. (abc.net.au)
  • Field-based research is being undertaken with Manyjilyjarra people who belong to the socio-linguistic Martu group who reside on western-central area of the Desert (in The Pilbara region). (lu.se)
  • From our Made in the USA Desert Collection, this Southwestern leaf design is executed in beautiful details with tan, red and green accents. (westernpassion.com)
  • Each piece is handmade and inspired by Southwestern and Western style decor. (westernpassion.com)
  • Southwestern bedspread in rich desert hues to coordinate with the Painted Desert Southwestern Bedding Collection. (westernpassion.com)
  • Many deserts do have one type of deposit known as soil carbonate rinds or pendants, sometimes referred to as caliche or hardpan. (western.edu)
  • The Western and Utah research team took long-term measurements of soil CO 2 , soil temperature, and soil moisture near Capitol Reef National Park that indicate the soil carbonate forms in the late spring to late summer with evaporating soil water as the primary driver. (western.edu)
  • Egypts Western Desert is hard to describe in one go. (touregypt.net)
  • The Bureau of Land Management seems gung ho to put more cows out on our beloved Alvord Desert and Steens Mountain, further jeopardizing sensitive wildlife, ecosystems, and the recreating public," said Adam Bronstein, Oregon/Nevada Director for Western Watersheds Project. (westernwatersheds.org)
  • With your donation, our efforts to save wildlife across the western portion of the United States will have a larger chance of success. (westernwatersheds.org)
  • Notify Western Passion immediately. (westernpassion.com)
  • I am very pleased with the Larado headboard that I ordered from Western Passion. (westernpassion.com)
  • I had checked several different distributors and found that Western Passion had the best price for the headboard as well as free shipping. (westernpassion.com)
  • I will highly recommend Western Passion to everyone I know. (westernpassion.com)
  • Western grebes nest in colonies of hundreds on large inland lakes, sometimes using coastal marshes, in western North America. (digital-desert.com)
  • We hypothesized that individuals that take the intermediate route are forced to migrate in daytime more often when crossing wide ecological barriers than birds that follow the typical western or eastern flyways. (lu.se)
  • Instead, birds that migrated along the western flyway were the most likely to undertake full day flights. (lu.se)
  • In the history of the Western Desert Art Movement, the Papunya School murals are widely acclaimed as the movement's progenitors. (edu.au)
  • Through the story of the genesis and construction of the Yuendumu Men's Museum and its extensive murals, this paper demonstrates that the Yuendumu murals significantly contributed to the early development of the Western Desert Art Movement. (edu.au)
  • Carmichael, B & Kohen, A 2013, ' The forgotten Yuendumu Men's Museum murals: Shedding new light on the progenitors of the Western Desert Art Movement ', Australian Aboriginal Studies , vol. 1, pp. 110-116. (edu.au)
  • Playfair described the Western Desert of 1940 as 390 km (240 mi) wide (i.e. from the Nile to the Libyan border) and 240 km (150 mi) from the Mediterranean to the latitude of Siwa Oasis, while the region to the south was referred to as the Inner Desert. (wikipedia.org)
  • At the end of the day our camp will be set up in the desert, so we can enjoy a magical atmosphere of the region, watch stars, have barbecue dinner and spend the night in our comfortable camp. (sharm-club.com)
  • The Great Sand Sea is a roughly lung-shaped area of sandy desert lying astride the border with Libya, 320 km (200 mi) inland from the Mediterranean. (wikipedia.org)
  • On the Egyptian side it was known historically as the "Libyan Desert", taking its name from Ancient Libya, which lay between the Nile and Cyrenaica. (wikipedia.org)
  • Marchetti hopes to fund several more Western student researchers. (western.edu)
  • Game website ] Right after the announcement for the Korean server, developer Pearl Abyss and publisher Kakao Games confirmed via an official press release that the O'dyllita update will arrive as a free update to the western servers this year. (mmoculture.com)
  • While staying at Tonopah's Best Western Hi-Desert Inn, guests can expect to encounter spacious rooms with comfortable bed, complimentary continental breakfast and free high-speed internet. (travelnevada.com)
  • The expedition visited South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Western Zimbabwe and Namibia, and one locality in Botswana on the border to South Africa, and Zambia North of Zambezi at the Victoria Falls. (lu.se)
  • The Western Desert is mostly rocky desert, though an area of sandy desert, known as the Great Sand Sea, lies to the west against the Libyan border. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Western Desert is barren and uninhabited save for a chain of oases which extend in an arc from Siwa, in the north-west, to Kharga in the south. (wikipedia.org)
  • Vegetation Differences in Desert Shrublands of Western Utah's Pine Val" by Neil E. West, Terence P. Yorks et al. (usu.edu)
  • The first Europeans to cross the desert (east to west) were in a party led by Maj. (britannica.com)
  • It occurs in Africa, Spain, Saudi Arabia, Asia, and certain areas in the western United States and Canada. (medlineplus.gov)
  • In the New World (the Western Hemisphere) , it is found in some parts of Mexico, Central America, and South America. (cdc.gov)
  • He is to Western wear what Henry Ford is to the car. (rockmount.com)
  • Water is essential to life in the desert, and the creation of rain by the voice of the Water Man singing in his cave, storm clouds forming, rain and even hail falling, are given pictorial translation here. (theage.com.au)
  • Water quality of Lac Vieux Desert is a concern for tribal members. (usgs.gov)
  • It tells the story of a man crossing the desert who eventually finds a water pump. (westernwriting.com)
  • You've got to prime the pump, you must have faith and believe You've got to give of yourself 'fore you're worthy to receive Drink all the water you can hold, wash your face, cool your feet But leave the bottle full for others, thank you kindly, Desert Pete. (westernwriting.com)
  • Drink all the water you can hold, wash your face, cool your feet" "But leave the bottle full for others, thank you kindly, Desert Pete. (westernwriting.com)
  • Sardar Sarovar Irrigation Canal system was constructed by Narmada Valley Development Authority (NVDA) to cater to drinking water as well as for irrigation purposes in Jalore and Barmer districts of Western Rajasthan. (bvsalud.org)
  • Schoolteachers, the district tendance with marked variations by gender senior laboratory technician, community and location and a high proportion of in- leaders and the enrolled children were en- fected non-enrolled children who miss listed to recruit non-enrolled children. (who.int)
  • It is a 700 mile journey that leads to four distinctly different worlds filled with fascinating desert people, antiquities, mysteries, and newly built resorts. (touregypt.net)
  • The ecologic settings range from rain forests to deserts. (cdc.gov)
  • Holding Trip Advisor's Certificate of Excellence of 2014 award, the Best Western Hi-Desert Inn is conveniently adjacent to the downtown area's casinos and museum. (travelnevada.com)
  • Thayer Tolles of the Metropolitan Museum of Art said that many of Remington's works offer a nostalgic, even mythic, look at a rapidly disappearing western frontier, which underwent dramatic transformation in the face of transcontinental transportation, Native American confinement to reservation land, immigration, and industrialization. (cdc.gov)
  • Monaco, a tiny sovereign city-state located on the French Riviera in Western Europe, boasts a land area of just about 2.02 square kilometers (0.78 square miles). (who.int)
  • If I said after his 12 labors Hercules rested in the Western Desert, Julius Caesar and Cleopatra romanced here, Antony and Cleopatra faced defeat here, and the first Allied victory in World War II took place here, would that do it? (touregypt.net)
  • The best way to find out what makes Western such a special place is to experience it for yourself. (western.edu)
  • Learn about Western and our community. (western.edu)
  • Whether getting together with friends at an annual event, making a donation or mentoring a student, graduates continue to play an important role in the Western community. (western.edu)
  • But Baharia is more that golden mummies, which the world will soon see are a-dime-a-dozen inalmost every oasis in this desert (after all it, like the Nile Valley, the desert has had thousands of years of history). (touregypt.net)
  • More desert-like vegetation came into the site at the end of the last ice age around 14,000 years ago and there were major changes in both vegetation and rainfall about 6,000 years ago. (western.edu)
  • Over the course of 25 years, farms have sprouted in the Arabian Desert, fueled by deep and old groundwater. (nasa.gov)
  • During the week of Aug. 30, the OSIRIS-REx mission team is testing their landing and recovery plans with the goal of reducing the time to safely retrieve the sample capsule from the desert floor and transport it to a clean room on base, protecting the rocks and dust collected from the surface of Bennu from earthly contaminants. (spacecoastdaily.com)
  • Let's continue our desert adventure after an early breakfast we prepare in the camp. (sharm-club.com)
  • Looking for an Epic Western Adventure? (westernwriting.com)