Problems of the Libyan Desert

THERE can be few tracts of the Earth’s surface which present such a number and variety of interesting geographical problems as the Libyan Desert. The following are some of the m...

That a river flowed during late Eocene or early Oligocene times in a north-easterly direction through what is now the Libyan Desert, and entered a sea near what is now the Faiyu...

But alas! an investigation of the northern borders of the depression showed that the hoped-for traces of a former connection with the Mediterranean Sea do not exist. The depress...

I have also thought it justifiable to include the Birket el Qarun in my collection of static water-level data, because although that lake was probably first formed by an overflo...

As both the deepening of the Nile channel in Lower Nubia and the desiccation of the Qattara depression are probably still slowly progressive, it is possible that these causes ma...

Apart from the question of new wells in the more remote parts of the Libyan Desert, a study of the map gives us some hints which may be of value should it ever be desired to sin...

We now come to the most puzzling of all the questions connected with the sand-dunes, namely, why do they persist as sharply defined long narrow lines in certain places, while th...

[Footnote 4: By way of comparison, it may be remarked that the area (at the sea-level contour) of the Qattara depression is about four times that of the Dead Sea and Jordan Vall...