Week Three - Deserts

The next place I can check of my bucket list is the great and mighty Sahara Desert. Since the Sahara Desert is completely massive, covers up to 11 countries, we when to Egypt to experience a part of history. What makes up a desert? Well, the easy answer is dry land masses where water rarely exists. The interior drainage system is lacking altogether and there is not consistent source of water intake to fertile the land. That is ultimately how deserts exists and they can go for regions. An interesting fact is that deserts normally if not always are next to huge mountain ranges and they are called rainshadow deserts. One side of the mountain would literally be a rain forest where trees and living things are everywhere while the other side of the mountain would be a desert. There would be nothing living there. The reasoning behind that is because of the mountain essentially blocking the climate to touch the other side. What’s really unique about the Sahara Desert is that everything will turn green and fertile again. All desert including the Sahara Desert has a pavement made up of particles such as rocks and pebbles. It is called deflation and there are normally three different stages in order to get to desert pavement. Now the big questions is when that will happen because as shown in the photo below, sand covers the whole desert for 300 miles.

From:

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-major-parts-of-the-sahara-desert-in-africa.html