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PETROLEUM SYSTEM OF SHOUSHAN BASIN, WESTERN DESERT, EGYPT [PDF]

Geological Behavior, 2020
The Western Desert is located in Egypt and it consists of a few extensional coastal rift-basins. It started as rifts and was formed during the Jurassic time in association with the opening of the Tethys Sea.
Jong E Cheng
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Determination of the Soiling Impact on Photovoltaic Modules at the Coastal Area of the Atacama Desert

Energies, 2020
With an elevation of 1000 m above sea level, once the coastal mountain range is crossed, the Atacama Desert receives the highest levels of solar radiation in the world. Global horizontal irradiations over 2500 kWh/(m2 year) and a cloudiness index below 3%
Douglas Olivares, Pablo Ferrada, Jonathan Bijman, Sebastián Rodríguez, Mauricio Trigo-González, Aitor Marzo, Jorge Rabanal-Arabach, Joaquín Alonso-Montesinos, Francisco Javier Batlles, Edward Fuentealba   +9 more
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Antofagasta Chile

Docomomo Journal, 2022
Founded in 1866, the city of Antofagasta is located in the coastal Atacama Desert, very close to the Tropic of Capricorn. Its architectural development occurred mainly during two periods: at first as a cosmopolitan industrial city, port of the nitrate ...
Claudio Galeno Ibaceta
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California margin temperatures modulate regional circulation and extreme summer precipitation in the desert Southwest

Environmental Research Letters, 2023
In August 2022, Death Valley, the driest place in North America, experienced record flooding from summertime rainfall associated with the North American monsoon (NAM).
Tripti Bhattacharya, Ran Feng, Christopher R Maupin, Sloan Coats, Peter R Brennan, Elizabeth Carter   +5 more
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Singing on key: An integrative taxonomic revision of barking geckos (Gekkonidae: Ptenopus) with six additional species and keys for morphology and advertisement calls [PDF]

Vertebrate Zoology
Barking geckos, Ptenopus Gray, 1866 are burrowing geckos that occur across the xeric regions of southern Africa. They possess unique vocal abilities, with males producing loud advertisement calls to attract females. The taxonomy of the genus has remained
François S. Becker, Graham J. Alexander, Krystal A. Tolley   +2 more
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Extreme environments as potential drivers of convergent evolution by exaptation: the Atacama Desert Coastal Range case.

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2012
We have recently discovered a variety of unrelated phototrophic microorganisms (two microalgae and one cyanobacteria) in specialized terrestrial habitats at The Coastal Range of the Atacama Desert.
Armando eAzua-Bustos, Carlos eGonzález-Silva, Cristián eArenas-Fajardo, Rafael eVicuña   +3 more
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A new species of Ithome Chambers (Lepidoptera, Cosmopterigidae, Chrysopeleiinae) from the Atacama Desert revealed by morphology and DNA barcodes [PDF]

ZooKeys, 2020
Morphology and DNA barcode sequences were used to assess the taxonomic status of a micro-moth of the genus Ithome Chambers, 1875 (Lepidoptera, Cosmopterigidae, Chrysopeleiinae), whose larvae feed on inflorescences of Prosopis tamarugo Phil. (Fabaceae), a
Sebastián Espinoza-Donoso, Dante Bobadilla, Wilson Huanca-Mamani, Marcelo Vargas-Ortiz, Héctor A. Vargas   +4 more
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Variación en la abundancia de Artropoda en un transecto latitudinal del desierto costero transicional de Chile, con énfasis en los tenebriónidos epígeos Variation in the abundance of Arthropoda from a latitudinal transect in the transitional coastal desert of Chile, with emphasis on the epigean tenebrionids

Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, 2005
Mediante el empleo de trampas de intercepción se examinó la composición taxonómica y los patrones de abundancia (denso-actividad) de la fauna de Arthropoda del transecto 27-30º S del desierto costero transicional de Chile, particularmente la distribución
JORGE CEPEDA-PIZARRO, JAIME PIZARRO-ARAYA, HERNÁN VÁSQUEZ   +2 more
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Sand and Dust Storms (SDS): Types, Characteristics, and Indications [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2019
Sand and dust storms (SDS) is a common weather phenomenon in the Middle East. Topography and the northern or northwesterly wind are the main control factors for types of SDS trajectories.
Al-Dousari Ali, Al Hamoud Ali, Ahmed Modi, Al-Dousari Noor   +3 more
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Grain size discrimination between sands of desert and coastal dunes from northwestern Mexico

Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas, 2018
A textural study of grain-size distribution parameters (mean graphic size Mz, sorting σ, skewness Ski, kurtosis KG) was carried out in the state of Sonora, in NW Mexico.
Juan José Kasper-Zubillaga, Arturo Carranza-Edwards   +1 more
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