Copyright © 2009 Deidre Sorensen
A few years ago, I had the opportunity to visit the Syrian Desert,
also known as Palmyra; the magnificent ruins of a Roman city in the middle of
the desert. Which is a sparsely populated region in Syria and is the basin of
the river Euphrates. The Euphrates is the longest and one of the most
historically important rivers of Western Asia. The basin is characterized by
high mountains to the north and west and extensive lowlands in the south and
the east. They begin scarcely 18 miles apart from each other in a relatively
cool and humid zone. Being a rather flat and stony semi-desert, mainly consisting of limestone
bedrock it can be considered to be part of the Syrian steppe. This beautiful
desert topography was probably formed due to its subtropical location in part, but mainly
due to a rain shadow from the surrounding mountains.
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