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sand sea

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sand sea [′san ′sē]
(geology)
An extensive assemblage of sand dunes of several types in an area where a great supply of sand is present; characterized by an absence of travel lines, or directional indicators, and by a wavelike appearance of dunes separated by troughs.
The flat, rain-smoothed plain of volcanic ash and other pyroclastics on the floor of a caldera.


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Major EFMS prizes were also won by Rally Raid Egypt, Ahmed El-Sirgany and Alain Besancon and Sand Sea Sailors' Tarek El-Erian for the Egypt Rally Championship 2009.
Sahara is also made up of sand seas (also called erg), stone plateaus (also called hamada), area of gravel plains (also called reg), salt flats (also called shatt), and dry valleys (also called wadi).
The tourists were camping near the Sudanese border by the Gilf al-Kebir, a giant plateau beyond the Great Sand Sea famed for its prehistoric cave paintings.
 
 
 
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