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Idehan Murzuq
أدهان مرزق
Marzuq Sand Sea seen from ISS, 2008 (centered at 24°30′N 12°00′E / 24.5°N 12°E / 24.5; 12). Detailed astronaut photograph, taken from low Earth orbit, showing classic large and small sand masses of the central Sahara where wind is a more powerful land-shaping agent than water.
Map of the topographic features of the Sahara
Map of the topographic features of the Sahara
CountryLibya
Area
 • Total58,000 km2 (22,000 sq mi)
Elevation
660 m (2,170 ft)

The Murzuq Desert, Idehan Murzuq, Idhan Murzuq, (also Murzaq, Murzuk, Marzuq and Murzak), is an erg in southwestern Libya with a surface of approximately 58,000 km2.[1] It is named after the town of Murzuk in the Fezzan. Like the Idehan Ubari further north, the Idehan Murzuq is part of the greater Sahara Desert region. It is separated from the southern Sahara Desert by the Tibesti Mountains and the Tassili n'Ajjer.

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Dune pattern

The “Draa” dunes (from the Arabic for “arm”) are very large masses of sand in the western part of Libya's vast Murzuq Desert, and they appear in satellite images as a broad network of yellow-orange sand masses, with smooth-floored, almost sand-free basins between them. Geologists think that the draa of the Marzuq were probably formed by winds different from the prevailing north-northeast winds of today.

Numerous smaller dunes have developed on the backs of the draa. Three distinct dune types are visible in satellite images of the region:

The upwind sides of the sand masses appear smoother than the downwind side. Wind is moving sand grains almost all the time. This means that the draa and the dunes are all moving as sand is added on the upwind side and blown off the downwind side. Small sand masses move much faster than large sand masses.

The draa are almost stationary, but the smaller dunes move relatively quickly across their backs. When the smaller dunes reach the downwind side of the draa, they are obliterated; their sand is blown across the basins as individual grains. [2]

Petroleum

Since oil exploration began in 1957, eleven oil fields have been discovered in the Murzuq Basin. Two of the fields are considered giants, and altogether there are more than 2 billion barrels of oil in reserves under the desert there.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ Desert Geomorphology, p. 403
  2. ^ Sand Dunes, Marzuq Sand Sea, Southwest Libya. This article incorporates public domain text from this NASA website.
  3. ^ Rusk, Donald C. (2001) "Libya:Petroleum Potential of the Underexplored Basin Centers – A Twenty-First-Century Challenge" In Downey, Marlan W.; Threet, Jack C. and Morgan, William A. (2001) Petroleum Provinces of the Twenty-first Century (AAPG Memoir 74) American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa, Oklahoma, pp. 429-452, p. 429, ISBN 0-89181-355-1

External links

Media related to Murzuq Desert at Wikimedia Commons

24°45′N 13°00′E / 24.750°N 13.000°E / 24.750; 13.000

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