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It occupies most of the Arabian Peninsula with an area of 2, 300,000 square km.
Its length is more than 1000m siding Tuwaiq Mountains from the east and does not exceed 80km in width.
The Nefud is connected to the Rub al-Khali, a corridor of gravel plains and sand dunes.
The terrain is covered with sand dunes with heights up to 250m, interspersed with gravel and gypsum plains. The sand is reddish in colour due to the presence of feldspar.
The dunes of the north, measure up to 100 m high, with peaks accumulating in the areas just below the strongest wind speeds, where declining velocity wind deposited sands.
The Atlas Mountains is a mountain range across a northern stretch of Africa extending
In the west of the desert, a salt lake called Darya-ye Namak (1800km squared) can be found, but most of the surface area is dry. The lake reaches a depth between 45 cm to 1 metre.
The Atlas Mountains is a mountain range across a northern stretch of Africa extending
Acknowledgements
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