Sunday, August 23, 2015

On the tropics of Cancer and Caoricorn, the Sub tropical regions of the beautiful planet lie. These regions have the hottest deserts situated in Asia, Australia, Africa and North America. Usually, they are called as Sub tropical deserts that have quite hot and dry climate with sandy, coarse or rocky soil. The average annual rainfall in the Sub tropical deserts is not far more than 50 cm (19″) and normally totals significantly less than 25 cm (10″). We can hardly discovered the vegetation in abundance, nevertheless, in some components of the Sub tropical deserts, grasses and herbaceous plants, deciduous or evergreen broadleaf trees, or a mix may develop in patches.

These are the photos of the beautiful Sub tropical deserts of

1- The Fantastic Sahara Desert

Sahara Desert: Image by Andrew Galea Debono
Sahara Desert: Image by Andrew Galea Debono

The Sahara Desert is positioned in the big components of Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Western Sahara, Sudan and Tunisia. The Sahara is the largest desert on the African continent. The Sahara stretches from the Red Sea, like components of the Mediterranean coasts, to the outskirts of the Atlantic Ocean. To the south, it is delimited by the Sahel, a belt of semi-arid tropical Savanna that composes the northern region of central and western Sub-Saharan Africa.

two- The Arabian Desert


The Arabian desert ( Image : Romy Alcoriza )

The Arabian Desert is situated in the Western Asia. It is a large desert wilderness stretching from Yemen to the Persian Gulf and Oman to Jordan and Iraq. It occupies most of the Arabian Peninsula, with an location of 2,330,000 square kilometers (900,000 sq mi). The climate is very dry, and temperatures oscillate between extreme heat and seasonal evening time freezes.

3- The Kalahari Desert

Kalahari desert of Africa ( Image : Jaffles )
Kalahari desert of Africa ( Image : Jaffles )

The Kalahari Desert is a big arid to semi-arid sandy area in the southern Kgalagadi Africa extending 900,000 km² (362,500 sq. mi.) The Kalahari is mostly flat, with an typical elevation of about 1,000 m (3,000 ft) above sea level. The sands of the Kalahari are red, brown, or white in places. The only permanent surface water in or around the Kalahari is the Boteti River.

four- The Fantastic Victoria Desert

The Great Victoria Desert of Australia
The Wonderful Victoria Desert of Australia

The Excellent Victoria Desert of Australia is the biggest Australian desert. Its location is virtually 424,400 km2 (163,900 milestwo). This is a single of the largest deserts of which extends from the Eastern Goldfields region in Western Australia across the southern parts of central Australia to the Stuart and Gawler Ranges in South Australia.

5- The Syrian Desert

The Syrian desert ( Image: Glenn Livett and Isla Malte )
The Syrian desert ( Image: Glenn Livett and Isla Malte )

The Syrian Desert is also identified as the Syro-Arabian desert which is a mixture of steppe and accurate desert that is positioned in the northern Arabian Peninsula covering 200,000 square miles (more than 500,000 square kilometers). The desert is really rocky and flat. The Syrian Desert is element of the Al-Hamad, which covers portions of Syria, Iraq, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. The desert’s outstanding landscape was formed by lava flows from the volcanic region of the Jebel Druze, in southern Syria.

six- The Chihuahuan Desert

The Chihuahuan Desert ( Image: Gary Nored )
The Chihuahuan Desert ( Image: Gary Nored )

The Chihuahuan Desert is the easternmost, southernmost, and biggest North American desert. Most of it is positioned in the states of Chihuahua and Coahuila in Mexico, but fingers of the Chihuahuan attain up into western Arizona, southern New Mexico, and Texas, and down to the states of Zacatecas, and San Luis Potosi in Mexico. This desert is quite huge – about 175,000 square miles – producing it bigger than the whole state of California.

7- The Wonderful Sandy Desert

The Great Sandy Desert ( Image : Mark Maupin )
The Excellent Sandy Desert ( Image : Mark Maupin )

The Excellent Sandy Desert is the second largest desert in Australia. It is in the north of Western Australia. It is flat, hot and mainly dry, but some rain falls in the desert when the monsoons cross the north of Australia from September to April (a monsoon bring rain and thunderstorms). In winter, it gets extremely cold at evening. There are open grasslands, primarily spinifix, with some trees.

eight- The Sonoran Desert

Sonoran desert ( Image: Mackison )
Sonoran desert ( Image: Mackison )

The Sonoran Desert is an arid area covering 120,000 square miles in southwestern Arizona and southeastern California, as properly as most of Baja California and the western half of the state of Sonora, Mexico. Subdivisions of this hot, dry region incorporate the Colorado and Yuma deserts. This is the hottest in North America, but a distinctly bimodal rainfall pattern produces a affordable biological diversity.

9- Thar Desert


An image of Thar desert ( Alexander Pappas )

Thar is the largest Desert Of India & Pakistan. Thar lies mostly in the Indian State of Rajasthan, and extends into the northern portion of Haryana and Punjab states and into southern Gujarat state. In Pakistan, the desert covers eastern Sindh province and the southeastern portion of Pakistan’s Punjab province. The Cholistan Desert adjoins the Thar Desert spreading into Pakistani Punjab province. Stretches of sand in the desert are interspersed by hillocks and sandy and gravel plains. Due to the diversified habitat and ecosystem, the vegetation, human culture and animal life in this arid region is quite wealthy in contrast to the other deserts of the planet.

10- Gibson Desert

An image of the Gibson Desert by Steve Strike
An image of the Gibson Desert by Steve Strike

The Gibson Desert covers a large dry region in the state of Western Australia and is still largely in an virtually “pristine” state. It is about 155,000 square kilometres (60,000 square miles) in size, generating it the 5th biggest desert in Australia, soon after the Excellent Sandy, Fantastic Victoria, Tanami and Simpson deserts. In much of the area, specially the drier western portion, the majority of people living in the location are aboriginal Australians.

11- Simpson Desert

A view from the Simpson desert by John Benwell
A view from the Simpson desert by John Benwell

The Simpson Desert is a huge area of dry, red sandy plain and dunes in Northern Territory, South Australia and Queensland in central Australia.It is the fourth largest Australian desert, with an region of 176,500 km² (68,one hundred sq mi). The sand is predominately made up of quartzgrains. The grains are rounded and sub angular. They range size from .05mm to 1.2mm with .5mm getting the typical size for the crests and .three being the typical size on the dune flanks.

12- Mojave Desert


An image of the Mojave Desert by Kathy

 The Mojave Desert occupies a important portion of Southern California and components of Utah, Nevada, and Arizona. Named soon after the Mohave Native Americans it occupies roughly 54,000 square miles in a common Basin and Variety topography. The Mojave, like all deserts in common, is recognized for its summer season heat, nevertheless, there is wintertime cold. Snow, despite the fact that uncommon, does fall in parts of the Mojave. The Mojave Desert receives less than 6 inches of rain a year and is generally among three,000 and six,000 feet in elevation.

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