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region of southwest Tunisia bounded by the salt lake Chott el Djerid to the west, the Grand Erg Oriental to the south, and the Dahar plateau to the east...

The following is a list of endorheic basins, watersheds which do not drain to the sea. Chott Melrhir (Algeria) Chott Ech Chergui (Algeria) Chott el Hodna...

basin – Geologic basin under the sea Oceanic plateau – Relatively flat submarine region that rises well above the level of the ambient seabed Oceanic ridge –...

for the animals. In winter, they lived around the chotts (pronounced "shots"), a string of large salt lakes on the desert southern fringes of the Roman...

valleys, and plateaus between the Mediterranean and the Sahara Desert, forms an integral part of the section of North Africa known as the Maghreb. This...

plains. The Hodna region, with the Chott el Hodna lies at the eastern end of the Hautes Plaines. The main towns of the plateau are Bordj Bou Arreridj, Sétif...

turlough, the largest turlough in the Republic of Ireland. Laacher See, in Germany. The Lasithi Plateau in Crete, Greece, is a high endorheic plateau. A few...

the plateau stretches further westwards. The northern part of the Hodna is composed of silt and the southern part is mainly sandy. The lowest area of...

the rocky Dahar Plateau, which later became part of an SD across the Matmata Hills to Kebili on the edge of the Chott el Djerid. The chott and Chott El...

tabletop plateau shared with Venezuela and Brazil. The highest point of the plateau is inside Venezuelan territory at 2,810 metres (9,220 ft). The Guyanese...

salt lakes of central Tunisia, Chott Melghir in Algeria, and other areas of Egypt, Algeria, Mauritania, and Western Sahara. The countries of the Maghreb...

Gafsa Governorate. The gorges link the Gafsa Valley with the Redeyef plateau. The area contains abundant phosphate deposits. The Gorges are several kilometers...

collected on the margins of the chotts. In 2019, the country was the 17th largest world producer of gypsum, and the 19th largest world producer of phosphate...

seas, stone plateaus, gravel plains (reg), dry valleys (wadi), dry lakes (oued), and salt flats (shatt or chott). Unusual landforms include the Richat Structure...

called "chotts”.  This region has unique wetlands that provide habitat and breeding grounds for migratory birds. The Saharan Atlas Mountains lie to the south...

deposits and vadose diagenetic features with dinosaur tracks. The Tunisian coastal "chotts" and their cyclic muddy deposits represent a good recent equivalent...

protected under by the Ramsar Convention an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands, recognizing the fundamental ecological...

Hautes Plaines (high plateaus) of the north, characterized by chotts (intermittent salt lakes), and the Sahara to the south. The town was founded in 1852...

one of a large number of seasonal streams that empty into Chott Melrhir. It is bordered to the north by the municipality of Sidi Makhlouf, to the west...

and incision of a plateau such that only a small part of the plateau surface is at or near the original elevation of the summit; much of the area instead...