Libyan desert Sentence Examples

Phosphates occur also in Egypt, in the desert east of Keneh and in the Dakla oasis in the Libyan desert.

They are the termination of a stony plateau, containing several small oases, which southward joins the more arid and uninhabitable wastes of the Libyan Desert.

North of Assuan it is called the Libyan Desert.

The superficial sands of the desert region, derived in large part from the disintegration of the Nubian Sandstone, occupy the most extensive areas in the Libyan Desert.

There are, however, numerous wells, water being obtained freely from the porous sandstone which underlies a great part of the Libyan desert.

On the 8th of March he started for Derna across the Libyan desert from the Arab's Tower, 40 m.

For example, where the high plateau of the Libyan desert descends into a longitudinal valley between Syrtis and the Nile delta there are a few spots where the water comes to the surface or is found in shallow wells.

The Nubian sandstone borders the Libyan desert on the south and south-west, but it is doubtful if this sandstone is of Cretaceous or earlier date.

North of Khartum agricultural land is confined to a narrow strip on either side of the Nile and to the few oases in the Libyan Desert.