Surrounded by thousands of square miles of ubiquitous desert, the “Eye of the Sahara” peers out from the Earth’s surface and at nearly 50 km wide, its easily visible from space too. The “Eye of the Sahara” is known as a Richat Structure, a geological feature consisting of a series of alternating circular layers of sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rock, exposed by erosion. The “Eye of the Sahar ...[Read More]
Between a Rock and a Hard Place | Eye of the Sahara
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place