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	Qattara Depression
		The Qattara Depression (local: Munkhafad al-Qattarah) is a desert basin within the Libyan Desert of north-western Egypt.
		The Depression covers about 18,130 km² (~7,000 square miles), and at its maximum is 80km in length and 120km in width.
		The bottom of the depression consists of a salt bog.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/qa/Qattara_Depression.html (90 words)

	Qattara Depression - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Depression is an important habitat for the Cheetah, with the largest number of recent sightings being in areas in the northern, western, and northwestern part of the Qattara Depression, including the highly isolated, wild oases of Ein EI Qattara and Ein EI Ghazzalat, and numerous Acacia groves both inside and outside the depression.
		However the Depression is inhabited by the nomadic Bedouin people and their flocks, with the Moghra oasis being important in times of water scarcity and dry seasons.
		The area is composed of sand dunes and salt lakes in a tear drop shaped formation with the point of the drop facing east and the broad deep area at the south west end.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Qattara_Depression (787 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Qattara Depression (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The largest gazelle population exists in the southwestern part of the Qattara Depression within a vast area of (A low area where the land is saturated with water) wetlands and soft sand.
		However the Depression is inhabited by the nomadic (A member of a nomadic tribe of Arabs) Bedouin people and their flocks, with the Moghra oasis being important in times of water scarcity and dry seasons.
		Because the depression is so deep and broad a great deal of water would be let in to maintain the artificial salt sea at the 300 foot level and as the water evaporates more sea water would be sent through the penstocks to generate more electricity.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Qattara-Depression (1859 words)

	Depression - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Depression (psychology), mental illness in which a person experiences deep, unshakable sadness and diminished interest in nearly all activities....
		Depression (economics), in economics, a period in an industrial nation characterized by low production and sales and a high rate of business...
		Great Depression in the United States, worst and longest economic collapse in the history of the modern industrial world, lasting from the end of...
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	Libyan Desert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There are eight important depressions in the Libyan Desert, and all are considered oases except the smallest, Qattara, because its waters are salty.
		The Qattara Depression, which contains the second lowest point in Africa, is approximately 15,000 square km (about the size of Connecticut and Rhode Island), and is largely below sea level (its lowest point is 133 meters below sea level).
		The sparsely inhabited Qattara Depression is covered by badlands, salt marshes and salt lakes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Libyan_Desert (387 words)

	Qattara
		Depression in western Egypt, with a size of 19,500 km².
		The depression goes as deep as 133 metres below sea level.
		There are no settlements, and the nature is made up of sand desert, salt lakes and marshes.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/qattara.htm (38 words)

	Qattara Depression: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The bottom of the depression consists of a salt bog[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject].
		In geography, an oasis is an isolated area of vegetation in a desert, typically surrounding a spring or similar water source....
		Because the Quattra is in a very hot dry region with very little cloud cover the water released at the 300 foot level would spread out from the release point across the basin until it evaporates from solar influx.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/q/qa/qattara_depression.htm (1992 words)

	Qattara Depression: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Depression covers about 18,130 km² (~7,000 square miles) (18,130 km² (~7,000 square miles): more facts about this subject), and at its maximum is 80km in length (length: The linear extent in space from one end to the other; the longest horizontal dimension of something that is fixed in place) and 120km in width.
		The largest gazelle population exists in the southwestern part of the Qattara Depression within a vast area of wetlands (wetlands: A low area where the land is saturated with water) and soft sand.
		However the Depression is inhabited by the nomadic Bedouin (Bedouin: A member of a nomadic tribe of Arabs) people and their flocks, with the Moghra oasis being important in times of water scarcity and dry seasons.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/qattara_depression (953 words)

	Qattara Depression - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Qattara Depression, desert basin in the north-eastern Sahara, north-western Egypt.
		The Sahara as a whole is a raised tableland with an average elevation from about 395 to 490 m (1,300 to 1,600 ft).
		Very large depressions may, in some cases, be partly tectonic in origin but deflation is an important process in their formation.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Qattara_Depression.html (106 words)

	Western Desert
		The Libyan or El-Diffa Plateau in north-western Egypt extends from the Libyan border to the Qattara Depression, north of 29 N, reaching a height of 215 m a.s.l..
		All of these depressions have been formed by wind erosion and are termed deflation hollows; the areas of weaker rock in the Nubian sandstone sequence are preferentially eroded.
		For instance, the Qattara and Siwa Depressions are formed along the same structural trend; the Bahariya and Farafra Depressions, and the farafra, Dakhla, and Kharga Depressions, form other structurally related groups.
	www.fao.org /ag/agl/swlwpnr/reports/y_nf/egypt/e_wdsrt.htm (1009 words)

	Managing water for peace in the Middle East
		This particular type of hydroelectric project, generally known as solarhydro, would be made possible by the combination of such factors as the existence of a vast depression at a distance not too far from the sea in a region with characteristically scarce rainfall and a resulting high degree of evaporation.
		The Qattara depression is located in the north-western part of Egypt and is the world's fifth deepest natural depression.
		The utilization of the Qattara depression to develop hydroelectric power was first suggested by the Berlin geographer Professor Penk in 1912, and later by Dr. Ball in 1927.
	www.unu.edu /unupress/unupbooks/80858e/80858E0a.htm (3328 words)

	Teen Depression in TutorGig Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Turan Depression is a basin in Turkmenistan.
		Depression, in everyday language, refers to any downturn in mood, which may be relatively transitory and perhaps due to something trivial.
		In economics, a depression is a term commonly used for a sustained downturn in the economy.
	www.tutorgig.com /es/Teen+Depression (800 words)

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		When the Germans closed off the LRDG route that followed the northern rim of the Qattara Depression, the SAS was forced to explore what was considered an "impassable" path through the Depression itself.
		The Depression, which was shaped something like a cutlet, was 150 miles in length and 75 miles across at the widest point.
		It was therefore important to cross the basin either at night or during the midday heat haze.
	www.geocities.com /firefly1002000/qattara.html (616 words)

	Definition of great depression
		Also notable is the [[Long Depression]] that lasted from the 1870s until the 1890s.
		1: The '''Turan Depression''' is a [[basin]] in [[Turkmenistan]].
		31: Depression in [[child]]ren is not as obvious as it is in adu...
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	Qara Oasis and the Qattara Depression, Egypt. Travel guide & tourist information by Hostelbookers.com
		Northeast of Qara the land plummets into the Qattara Depression, which is seven times the size of all the Western Desert oases combined and may be the largest depression in the world.
		There is, however, exploration for oil at many points in the desert between Qattara and Mersa Matrouh, which explains the upgraded tracks that crisscross the wilderness.
		While crossing the depression, it passes the uninhabited Maghra Oasis, where Jurassic fossils of mastadons, reptiles, fish and mammals have been found; petrified wood lies around, and there's a salt lake.
	www.hostelbookers.com /guides/egypt/qara_oasis_and_the_qattara_depression (471 words)

	Sedimentological Society of Egypt - SSE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The sedimentary and early diagenetic features of the evaporite deposits of the floor of the Qattara Depression have been investigated by field and petrographic studies in order to develop a depositional model in the light of the present day climatic data and geographic setting.
		Most of the floor of the depression is occupied by recent salt flats (sabkhas) which are dominated by thick and thin halite and gypsum crusts.
		The existence of halite and gypsum in the recent salt flats and gypsum/anhydrite in the Quaternary evaporite hills point to a long arid episode over the depression, with either differences in the composition of the parent brine or relative humidity and evaporation rate.
	www.salty2k.com /sse/abstracts/vol10/MAHMOUDAREF.html (334 words)

	Qattara Depression (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Depression at 133m below sea level contains the second lowest point in (See also: Lase Assal).
		The Depression covers 18 130 km² (~7 000 square miles) and at its maximum is 80km length and 120km in width.
		World War II During World War II this was a notable geographic feature was considered to be impassable for the of military vehicles notably tanks.
	www.freeglossary.com /Qattara_Depression (415 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Saharan halophytics (PA0905)
		Scattered across the Sahara, "Sebkhas" or "Chotts" are saline depressions in the desert that remain predominantly dry.
		The Siwa Depression in Egypt is much smaller; it extends in an east-west direction with a length of 80 km and maximum breadth of 26 km.
		Moreover, there is a proposed project to flood the Qattara Depression with seawater to make an inland sea that would destroy the natural habitats and replace them with a large salt lake.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/pa/pa0905_full.html (1756 words)

	MODIS Website
		Westerly winds are kicking up dust, perhaps from the Qattara Depression (just below and to the left of the approximate center of the image), one of the largest sources of dust on the planet.
		A series of dry lakebeds are located to the west and northwest of the depression and appear as brown patches.
		Also visible in the image are brown and greenish areas to the west of the clouds (near the Libyan border) that are associated with the Siwa Oasis.
	modis.gsfc.nasa.gov /gallery/individual.php?db_date=2006-02-11 (108 words)

	[No title]
		There is a lagre depression, the Qattara depression, just to the south of the northernmost scarp, with Siwa oasis at its western extremity.
		The depression continues in a shallower form west, to the oases of Jaghbub and Jalo in libya.
		The huge volume of sand excavated by the wind from the Quattara and other lesser depressions have been organised into a huge area of parallel sand dunes, hundreds of kilometres in length, and occasionally reaching heights of a hundred metres.
	www.fjexpeditions.com /desert/geography/geography.htm (995 words)

	Egypt Western Desert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Scarps (ridges) and deep depressions (basins) exist in several parts of the Western Desert, and no rivers or streams drain into or out of the area.
		There are seven important depressions in the Western Desert, and all are considered oases except the largest, Qattara, the water of which is salty.
		The Qattara Depression is approximately 15,000 square kilometers (about the size of Connecticut and Rhode Island) and is largely below sea level (its lowest point is 133 meters below sea level).
	www.country-studies.com /egypt/western-desert.html (407 words)

	Abdou A. El Bassyouny - Volume 3, January, 1995 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The sabkhas of the Qattara Depression are considered a terra incognita.
		The modern estimate of seepage water into the depression is equivalent to the total evaporation of the water from the sabkhas.
		The origin of these waters is considered to be partly rain-water and mainly ground-water from the Moghra aquifer in eastern Qattara and ground -water from the Nubian Sandstone in western Qattara.
	www.salty2k.com /sse/abstracts/vol3/elbassyounyv3.html (200 words)

	Qattara Depression, Egypt
		The Qattara Depression, the largest and most northerly of the Egyptian oasis depressions, is a deep wide rift in the gently undulating plateau of the Western (Libyan) Desert, lying within the triangle formed by El-Alamein, Mersa Matruh and the Siwa Oasis.
		The depression, filled with impassable and treacherous salt swamps (sebkha), is some 175mi/280km long and up to 90mi/140km wide, with a total area of some 6,950 sq.
		With a difference in level of some 177ft/54m when the basin was full it would then be possible to harness the water for the production of electric power and perhaps also to operate a plant for the desalination of sea water.
	www.planetware.com /egypt/qattara-depression-egy-nwr-qat.htm (424 words)

	CHAPTER 12 A Hard Summer \| NZETC
		Another 15 miles in the same direction was Fortress B, at Naqb Abu Dweis, near the lip of the Qattara Depression, and intended in the original plans for the occupation of the Alamein Line to form the southern extremity of the defences.
		The gap between Fortress A and the Qattara Depression became the responsibility of mobile columns of 7 Armoured Division.
		The Qattara Depression itself, a perpetual and practically impassable obstacle that precluded any possibility of a serious outflanking threat in the south, is a wide expanse of salt marshes about 7000 square miles in area.
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	Qattara
		Depression in western Egypt, with a size of 19,500 km².
		The depression goes as deep as 133 metres below sea level.
		There are no settlements, and the nature is made up of sand desert, salt lakes and marshes.
	i-cias.com /e.o/qattara.htm (49 words)

	Qattara Depression: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The bottom of the depression consists of a salt bog[for more facts and a summary of this subject, click this link].
		The largest gazelle population exists in the southwestern part of the Qattara Depression within a vast area of wetlands (A low area where the land is saturated with water)
		However the Depression is inhabited by the nomadic Bedouin (A member of a nomadic tribe of Arabs)
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /ref/qattara_depression (2255 words)

	Depression (economics) - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		During the economic hard times of the 1930s known as the Great Depression, Idaho’s economy once again suffered.
		Exploiting national discontent and fear of communism, Benito Mussolini established a Fascist dictatorship in 1922 (Fascism).
		Depression (economics) : pictures related to economic depressions
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Depression_(economics).html (147 words)

	Egyptvoyager.com: Siwa Oasis - Egypt
		El-Harag lies in vast and impressive depression where the rocks have wonderful colours and the landscape changes continuously, while the other three consist of small lakes surrounded by vegetation and set among rock outcrops and sand dunes.
		North-east of Siwa there is the vast Qattara depression, over one hundred metres below sea level, covered by salt.
		The region from Siwa to the Mediterranean coast was the scene of more than one battle during World War II, and the area of el-Alamein hosts memorials and war cemetery for the thousands of British, German, Italian, Greek and South African soldiers who died or disappeared there.
	www.egyptvoyager.com /oases_siwa.htm (493 words)

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