hamada
Desert landscape with mostly rock instead of sand
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Also known as rocky desert
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Desert landscape with mostly rock instead of sand
Also known as rocky desert
7 identifiers linking hamada across the web's reference databases
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A hamada is a type of desert landscape consisting of high, largely barren, hard rocky (basalt) plateaus, where most of the sand has been removed by deflation. The majority of the Sahara is hamada. Other examples are Negev desert in Israel and the Tinrhert plateau in Algeria.