Satellite image of ancient lake showing location of archaeological sites. The lake size is blue and archaeological sites are coloured red. Image courtesy of Nick Drake.
1 posted on
05/03/2012 3:58:02 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
I heard about this 30 years ago.
There has been a FRESH WATER PEARL industry in Bahrain for eons. The fresh water rain in Yeman (some of it) washes down through the sand and travel across the Saudi countryside through these underground river beds and comes out at the BASE of the Saudi gulf-side land into the so-salty gulf. It's fresh water.
The Bahrainis had pearls there for years, FRESH water pearls, that is, ODD sized and shaped. Cost a friggin' fortune because the awl bidness is killin' off the pearls. Imagine, Arab pearl divers, all men, of course.
The gulf used to have hamur (big white fish) and TONS of delicious shrimp. The Saudis used to build these triangular fish traps and just let the tides do their "fishing."
To: SunkenCiv
and of course we all know about the huge project in Libya to pump water out of the desert. I guess at one time or another there has been running water everywhere.
8 posted on
05/03/2012 4:27:29 PM PDT by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: SunkenCiv
Arabian Desert
Per Wiki: "Map of the Arabian Desert. Ecoregions as delineated by the WWF. Satellite image from NASA. The yellow line encloses the ecoregion called "Arabian Desert and East Sahero-Arabian xeric shrublands",[1] and two smaller, closely related ecoregions called "Persian Gulf desert and semi-desert"[2] and "Red Sea Nubo-Sindian tropical desert and semi-desert".[3] National boundaries are shown in black."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian_Desert
9 posted on
05/03/2012 4:28:25 PM PDT by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: SunkenCiv
wow! so you mean it wasn't a mirage after all?
To: SunkenCiv
Those pesky dinosaurs ate it dry/s
12 posted on
05/03/2012 4:39:43 PM PDT by
mountainlion
(I am voting for Sarah after getting screwed again by the DC Thugs.)
To: SunkenCiv
Well, surprise, surprise. NOT. I live in the Coachella Valley (Palm Springs area) of Southern California, also known as the Sonoran Desert or Colorado Desert. At one time, it was underwater. One can dig and find sea shells.
Quite a few years ago, I purchased a new home on a mesa above San Diego Stadium. So, it was about 50 to 75 feet above sea level. Every place I dug in the yard when planting my garden, I found sea shells.
13 posted on
05/03/2012 4:43:56 PM PDT by
CdMGuy
To: SunkenCiv
Looks like footprints on the beach :)
To: SunkenCiv
Everything was great there before Global Warming
15 posted on
05/03/2012 5:24:08 PM PDT by
Homer1
To: SunkenCiv
I wonder how the average reader is supposed to glean any useful information from postage stamp, minuscule illustrations with illegible detail?
19 posted on
05/03/2012 6:51:29 PM PDT by
publius911
(Formerly Publius 6961, formerly jennsdad)
To: SunkenCiv
Those look like Bigfoot tracks. ;8^)
Ed
22 posted on
05/03/2012 7:24:05 PM PDT by
husky ed
(FOX NEWS ALERT "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" THIS HAS BEEN A FOX NEWS ALERT)
To: SunkenCiv
Must have been camel caused global warming.
28 posted on
05/04/2012 2:46:28 PM PDT by
Fledermaus
(Democrats are dangerous and evil. Republicans are just useless and useful idiots.)
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