Egypt
- Online Resource: The Egyptian Journal Of Remote Sensing And Space Sciences
EJRS Thanks to AWOL for posting this on the above page. Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences is a peer reviewed journal under the responsibility of the National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS). It aims at publishing...
- Radar Images Reveal Lost Lake
Thaindian The original article can be found in the December 2010 edition of the journal Geology but be warned that it costs $25.00 for a day's access to the article. Geologists have found that a huge lake waxed and waned deep in the sandy heart of...
- More Re Drying Of The Sahara
Scientific American In a finding that may help scientists better predict the pace of climate change, research published in Science shows how the Sahara Desert, a region as big as the U.S. that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea across northern...
- Once Lush Sahara Dried Up Over Millennia
National Geographic (James Owen) The grassy prehistoric Sahara turned into Earth's largest hot desert more slowly than previously thought, a new report says—and some say global warming may turn the desert green once again. The new research is based...
- Prehistoric Sahara Teeming With Life
http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/report-54055.htmlThis may be of interest to anyone interested in the prehistory of the Western Desert of Egypt, with many of the same conclusions being drawn here for Libya, as have been drawn...
Egypt
Evidence of Ancient Mega-lake in Northern Darfur
http://www.physorg.com/news94314522.html
A bit of a stretch on the relevance front, but it might be of interest to anyone interested in north east African prehistoric climate: Researchers at the Boston University Center for Remote Sensing used recently acquired topographic data from satellites to reveal a now dry, ancient mega-lake in the Darfur province of northwestern Sudan. Drs. Eman Ghoneim and Farouk El-Baz made the finding while investigating Landsat images and Radarsat data. Radar waves are able to penetrate the fine-grained sand cover in the hot and dry eastern Sahara to reveal buried features. . . . As proven by El-Baz in Egypt, just north of Darfur, former lakes in this part of the Sahara are underlain by vast amounts of groundwater. His earlier detection of the 'East Uweinat' basin in southwestern Egypt – where the groundwater rises to 25 meters below the surface – resulted in the drilling of 500 wells to irrigate 100,000 acres of agricultural land."
A paper detailing the discovery will be published in an upcoming issue of the International Journal of Remote Sensing.
- Online Resource: The Egyptian Journal Of Remote Sensing And Space Sciences
EJRS Thanks to AWOL for posting this on the above page. Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences is a peer reviewed journal under the responsibility of the National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS). It aims at publishing...
- Radar Images Reveal Lost Lake
Thaindian The original article can be found in the December 2010 edition of the journal Geology but be warned that it costs $25.00 for a day's access to the article. Geologists have found that a huge lake waxed and waned deep in the sandy heart of...
- More Re Drying Of The Sahara
Scientific American In a finding that may help scientists better predict the pace of climate change, research published in Science shows how the Sahara Desert, a region as big as the U.S. that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea across northern...
- Once Lush Sahara Dried Up Over Millennia
National Geographic (James Owen) The grassy prehistoric Sahara turned into Earth's largest hot desert more slowly than previously thought, a new report says—and some say global warming may turn the desert green once again. The new research is based...
- Prehistoric Sahara Teeming With Life
http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/report-54055.htmlThis may be of interest to anyone interested in the prehistory of the Western Desert of Egypt, with many of the same conclusions being drawn here for Libya, as have been drawn...