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• Limestone Rat — Conservation status Near Threatened (IUCN 2.3) Scientific classification Kingdo …   Wikipedia

• Limestone pavement — Detail of the large limestone pavement in the Yorkshire Dales between Ingleborough and Pen y ghent …   Wikipedia

• desert palace — ▪ Umayyad architecture  any country dwelling built in Syria, Jordan, and Palestine by Umayyad (661–750 CE) rulers and aristocrats.       At one time the complexes were thought to be rural retreats for nomadic rulers and members of ruling families …   Universalium

• Arabian Desert — 1. a desert in Egypt between the Nile valley and the Red Sea. ab. 80,000 sq. mi. (207,000 sq. km). 2. the desert region in the N part of the Arabian peninsula. * * * Desert region, Arabian Peninsula. It covers about 900,000 sq mi (2,330,000 sq… …   Universalium

• ad-Dahna Desert — Dahna redirects here. For the villages in Azerbaijan, see Dəhnə (disambiguation). Satellite view of Al Dahna desert. ad Dahna Desert is the central division of the Arabian Desert. It is a corridor of sandy terrain forming a bow like shape that… …   Wikipedia

• Tamala Limestone — is the geological name given to the widely occurring eolianite limestone deposits on the western coastline of Western Australia, between Shark Bay in the north and nearly to Albany in the south. The rock consists of calcarenite wind blown shell… …   Wikipedia

• The Pinnacles Desert — The Pinnacles is contained within Nambung National Park, near the town of Cervantes, Western Australia. The Pinnacles are limestone formations. The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from seashells in an earlier epoch rich in… …   Wikipedia

• Arabian Desert — The Arabian Desert is a vast desert wilderness stretching from Yemen to the Persian Gulf and Oman to Jordan and Iraq. It occupies most of the Arabian Peninsula with an area of 2,330,000 square kilometers (900,000 mi²)cite book | first=John W. (ed …   Wikipedia

• Tigris-Euphrates river system — ▪ river system, Asia Introduction  great river system of Southwest Asia, comprising the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, which have their sources within 50 miles (80 km) of each other in eastern Turkey and travel southeast through northern Syria and… …   Universalium

• Linanthus demissus — Taxobox name = Linanthus demissus image width = 240px regnum = Plantae divisio = Magnoliophyta classis = Magnoliopsida ordo = Ericales familia = Polemoniaceae genus = Linanthus species = L. demissus binomial = Linanthus demissus binomial… …   Wikipedia

• GEOGRAPHICAL SURVEY — Names The name Ereẓ Israel (the Land of Israel) designates the land which, according to the Bible was promised as an inheritance to the Israelite tribes. In the course of time it came to be regarded first by the Jews and then also by the… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism