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Jane E. Goodman (2010) [2005]). Berber Culture on the World Stage: From Village to Video. Indiana University Press, ISBN 978-0-253-21784-4 pp. 49–68 a b c White, Kevin; Mattingly, David J. (2006). "Ancient Lakes of the Sahara". American Scientist. 94 (1): 58–65. doi: 10.1511/2006.57.983. Mares, Michael A., ed. (1999). Encyclopedia of Deserts. University of Oklahoma Press. p.490. ISBN 978-0-8061-3146-7. Archived from the original on 30 July 2023 . Retrieved 15 November 2015.

In the post–World War II era, several mines and communities have developed to use the desert's natural resources. These include large deposits of oil and natural gas in Algeria and Libya, and large deposits of phosphates in Morocco and Western Sahara. [108] Libya's Great Man-Made River is the world's largest irrigation project. [109] The project uses a pipeline system that pumps fossil water from the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System to cities in the populous Libyan northern Mediterranean coast including Tripoli and Benghazi. [110] Durant, S.; Mitchell, N.; Ipavec, A. & Groom, R. (2015). " Acinonyx jubatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T219A50649567. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T219A50649567.en. a b c Nicholson, Sharon E. (27 October 2011). Dryland Climatology. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-50024-1. Archived from the original on 30 July 2023 . Retrieved 20 November 2020.In the Chihuahuan Desert, in the United States and Mexico, temperatures can vary by dozens of degrees in one day. Daytime temperatures in the Chihuahua can climb beyond 37°C (100°F), while nighttime temperatures can dip below freezing (0°C or 32°F). Wehr, Hans (1994). A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic (Arabic-English) (4thed.). Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz. p.589. ISBN 978-0-87950-003-0. Atlantic coastal desert". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund . Retrieved 29 December 2007.

The desert covers much of North Africa, excluding the fertile region on the Mediterranean Sea coast, the Atlas Mountains of the Maghreb, and the Nile Valley in Egypt and the Sudan. [8] V. Giuffra; etal. (2010). "Antonio Ascenzi (1915–2000), a Pathologist devoted to Anthropology and Paleopathology" (PDF). Pathologica. 102 (1): 1–5. PMID 20731247. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 November 2016 . Retrieved 24 November 2016.

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Furthermore, the moon holds cultural importance in many desert communities. Its various phases and movements often play a significant role in traditional customs and rituals, strengthening the spiritual bond between people and the land. Tanezrouft – a desert covering northern Mali, northwestern Niger as well as central and southern Algeria, at the west of the Hoggar Mountains WPS. "Interesting Facts About the Sahara Desert". www.globaladventurechallenges.com. Archived from the original on 16 April 2023 . Retrieved 16 April 2023. a b Bisson, J. (2003). Mythes et réalités d'un désert convoité: le Sahara (in French). L'Harmattan.

Some geographical features are referred to as "deserts", and this word may even feature in their names, despite not meeting any meteorological definitions for a desert. [ citation needed] Borrell, Brendan (19 August 2009). "Endangered in South Africa: Those Doggone Conservationists". Slate. Archived from the original on 30 April 2011. After each flash, deep thunder rumbles through the desert. It echoes through canyons and valleys, surrounding you and emphasizing the desert’s vastness. During the last glacial period, the Sahara was much larger than it is today, extending south beyond its current boundaries. [33] The end of the glacial period brought more rain to the Sahara, from about 8000 BCE to 6000 BCE, perhaps because of low pressure areas over the collapsing ice sheets to the north. [34] Once the ice sheets were gone, the northern Sahara dried out. In the southern Sahara, the drying trend was initially counteracted by the monsoon, which brought rain further north than it does today. By around 4200 BCE, however, the monsoon retreated south to approximately where it is today, [35] leading to the gradual desertification of the Sahara. [36] The Sahara is now as dry as it was about 13,000 years ago. [29] The Atacama Desert, on the Pacific shores of Chile, is a coastal desert. Some areas of the Atacama are often covered by fog. But the region can go decades without rainfall. In fact, the Atacama Desert is the driest place on Earth. Some weather stations in the Atacama have never recorded a drop of rain.

It stretches from the Red Sea in the east and the Mediterranean in the north to the Atlantic Ocean in the west, where the landscape gradually changes from desert to coastal plains. To the south it is bounded by the Sahel, a belt of semi-arid tropical savanna around the Niger River valley and the Sudan region of sub-Saharan Africa. The Sahara can be divided into several regions, including the western Sahara, the central Ahaggar Mountains, the Tibesti Mountains, the Aïr Mountains, the Ténéré desert, and the Libyan Desert.