What type of desert is the Nubian Desert?

What type of desert is the Nubian Desert?

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  1. Nubian Desertnoun

    an arid sandstone plateau in northeastern Sudan between the Nile and the Red Sea

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  1. Nubian Desert

    The Nubian Desert is in the eastern region of the Sahara Desert, spanning approximately 400,000 km² of northeastern Sudan between the Nile and the Red Sea. The arid region is rugged and rocky and contains some dunes, it also contains many wadis that die out before reaching the Nile. The average annual rainfall in the Nubian Desert is less than 5 inches. The native inhabitants of the area are the Nubians. The Nile River goes through most of its cataracts while traveling through the Nubian Desert. This is right before the Great Bend of the Nile. The Nubian Desert affected the civilization in ancient Egypt in many ways. Africa's earliest known archaeoastronomical megalith was erected in Nabta Playa in the Nubian Desert in southern Egypt. The town of Abidiya is located nearby. This desert is the only habitat for the critically endangered palm Medemia argun, which only appears rarely in some oases in the desert. On October 7, 2008 the meteoroid 2008 TC3 exploded above the Nubian Desert.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of nubian desert in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

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    The numerical value of nubian desert in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

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Nubian Desert, eastern region of the Sahara Desert, c.157,000 sq mi (407,000 sq km), NE Republic of Sudan, NE Africa, between the Nile and the Red Sea. The arid region, largely a sandstone plateau, has numerous wadis flowing toward (but never reaching) the Nile, whose great bends are entrenched in the western part of the region.

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a desert in Africa, lying chiefly in the Sudan between the Nile River and the Red Sea. The Etbai Range separates the desert from the Red Sea. The surface is a plateau descending in steps from east to west from 1,000 m to 350 m. On the plateau are inselbergs rising to 1,240 m in the west. The ancient rocks of the Nubian-Arabian Shield and Nubian sandstones are exposed in the east and covered by sand in the west. The plateau is dissected by a dense network of dry riverbeds. The annual precipitation is about 25 mm, and the sparse vegetation consists primarily of xerophytic grasses and prickly shrubs and semishrubs. There is livestock herding. A railroad and a highway cross the desert, connecting the cities of Wadi Haifa and Abu Hamed on the Nile River.

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a desert in the NE Sudan, between the Nile valley and the Red Sea: mainly a sandstone plateau

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The second section of north, east and central Africa begins with Briggs' study of adaptation tb changing environmental conditions following the creation of Lake Nasser by the Bedouin of Egypt's Nubian desert, who have shown themselves able to accumulate and assess new environmental knowledge.

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The guide's first half explains the country's historical context, the second half describes the country from the confluence of the Niles at Khartoum, the pyramids of the Nubian desert; the frontier settlement of Wadi Halfa, the railhead town of Atbara, the Red Sea's pristine dive sites, the world's Gum Arabic capital El Obeid, the sugarloaf Taka mountains near Kassala, and the fertile Nuba Mountains.

Ten trips are included in the price - including the temples of Karnak, Luxor, Kom Ombo and Philae, the magnificent Valley of the Kings and Queens plus visits to the Nubian desert, souks and botanical gardens.

ANSWERS: 1 The Ardennes' 2 Sherlock Holmes' 3 The farthing' 4 Syria' 5 Chromium' 6 San Marino' 7 The Nubian Desert' 8 The rose' 9 Love Don't Cost A Thing' 10 Slovakia.