![]() ![]() The highest temperature recorded by the satellite was 70.7 degrees Celsius, in 2005, but the Iranian desert also had the highest yearly temperature in five of the seven years of satellite data.Įither way, the hottest part of Dasht-e Lut is a region called Gandom Beryan, a plateau covered with volcanic black pebbles, about 480 square kilometers large. The Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer installed on NASA’s Aqua satellite surveyed the globe between 20 and the collected data revealed that the hottest land temperature on average was recorded here. ![]() Today, the area is a barren land about 51,800 square kilometers in size, surrounded by mountains on all sides, which contributes to the record-setting temperatures recorded here, as they prevent humid air from the Mediterranean and Arabian Sea to reach it. Millions of years ago, tectonic shifts caused the bottom of the sea to rise, with the water slowly evaporating due to the high temperatures. Like a paradox, the Shur River flows through the desert, which does not dry out even in dry years.Iran’s Dasht-e Lut desert, also known simply as Lut Desert, is only the 25th largest desert in the world, but it holds another record: the highest and surface temperature ever recorded with over 70 degrees Celsius!ĭasht-e Lut (Persian for “Emptiness Plain”) is a large salt desert that, scientists believe, formed on the bottom of a sea. The absolute maximum temperature on Earth was recorded in the Dasht-e Lut desert in 2005 (70.7 ☌). Physical weathering has created numerous "pillars", "mushrooms" and similar forms. In the south, at the eastern foot of the Kuhbenan ridge, within the desert, there is a drainless saline depression Nemekzar, in the lower part of which, during the flood of rivers, a shallow lake is formed in spring. Significant areas of the desert are occupied by takyrs, as well as solonchaks, in the south of the desert there are vast massifs of sand. From one oasis to another, you will be able to encounter rare shrubs, the most tenacious grasses in the plant world! The eastern part raises a plateau covered with salt marshes. There is a running water at the bottom of the well, and those who dig the well have built narrow tunnels to reach the source of this water. ![]() Each of these wells is about 50 meters deep and wide enough for a person to pass through. ![]() There are hundreds of water wells dug by the local people 2000 years ago in the Lut Desert. In the arid desert of Lut, another phenomenon as unique as it is paradoxical attracts all visitors who pass through it: the presence of water points. You will contemplate a series of parallel ridges and furrows extending over more than 150 km in length and 75 meters in height! As a result, the area presents bewildering examples of relief. Between June and October, powerful winds sweep across it, carrying sediment and causing wind erosion on a prodigious scale. In this respect, the Lut Desert is accepted as a non-living region.Ī truly extraordinary site, the Lut desert or Dasht-e-Lut is understood as the cradle of spectacular phenomena. In deserts near the tropics, most of the precipitation falls on the mountainous regions. Longitudinally prominent spots on the map (parallel to the mountain range) are dried desert lakes that cover up to 300 kilometers to the south. Iran is a part of the Afro-Asiatic desert belt that starts from Cape Verde Islands in West Africa and extends through Mongolia to the Chinese capital Beijing. ![]()
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