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    The Danakil Depression is the northern part of the Afar Triangle or Afar Depression in Ethiopia and Eritrea, a geological depression that has resulted...
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    chain of saline lakes. The northern part of the Afar Depression is also known as the Danakil Depression. The lowlands are affected by heat, drought, and minimal...
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    The Danakil Desert (or Afar Desert) is a desert in northeast Ethiopia, southern Eritrea, and northwestern Djibouti. Situated in the Afar Triangle, it...
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  • Danakil may refer to: Danakil people or Afar people, an ethnic group in the Horn of Africa Danakil Depression, a desert basin in north-eastern Ethiopia...
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    terrestrial hydrothermal system around a cinder cone volcano in the Danakil Depression, northeast of the Erta Ale Range in Ethiopia. It is known for its...
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    Aral–Caspian Depression Baetic Depression Bodélé Depression Caspian Depression Danakil Depression Eider-Treene Depression Georgia Depression Giurgeu-Brașov...
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    Buya or Buia is an archaeological site in the Danakil Depression of Eritrea. It is known for the discovery of Madam Buya, a one million-year-old fossil...
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    straddling Djibouti, Ethiopia and Eritrea). The volcano is located in the Danakil Depression, an area on the border between Ethiopia and Eritrea that is below...
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    is a small hypersaline lake located near the Dallol crater in the Danakil Depression (Afar Region, Ethiopia). It is located over a hot spring of tectonic...
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    Somali regions. The Afar Triangle, the northern part of which is the Danakil Depression, is part of the Great Rift Valley of Ethiopia, and is located in the...
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  • Arrata. The alps lie along the southern Red Sea to the east of the Danakil Depression and separate it from the sea. The alps are asymmetric in cross-section...
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    of Eritrea. It is located at the south-east end of the Danakil Alps in the Danakil Depression. Before its 2011 eruption, the volcano was widely believed...
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    saline water body in the world is the Gaet'ale Pond, located in the Danakil Depression in Afar, Ethiopia. The water of Gaet'ale Pond has a salinity of 43%...
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    2021-11-18 at the Wayback Machine, Fri Aug 15 2014. "Salt mine in the Danakil Depression in Ethiopia, 2015". Independent Travellers. independent-travellers...
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    anatomically modern humans. It is believed that the section of the Danakil Depression in Eritrea was a major site in terms of human evolution and may contain...
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    Region of Ethiopia. One of two salt lakes in the northern end of the Danakil Depression (the other one being Lake Afrera), it lies 120 m (394 ft) below sea...
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    (April 2017). "Chemical Analysis of Gaet'ale, a Hypersaline Pond in Danakil Depression (Ethiopia): New Record for the Most Saline Water Body on Earth". Aquatic...
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  • twilight zone for distributing larvae. The episode examines life in the Danakil Depression with exobiologist Kennda Lynch, polymorphism in leafcutter ants, scorpion...
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    of a month spent living with the Afar people in Ethiopia's hostile Danakil Depression. She occasionally performs on the lecture circuit with a show based...
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    Located in Kilbet Rasu, Afar Region, it is one of the lakes of the Danakil Depression. According to its entry in Lakenet, it has a surface area of 100 km2...
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    lightning. In January 2005 Kourounis brought his camera to the remote Danakil Depression in the harsh Ethiopian desert and was lowered 60 ft (18 m) into the...
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    the lowest point of the United States and North America. The Qattara Depression is the lowest point in Egypt. Aydingkol is the lowest point of China....
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    being extremely hot year-round, the climate of the lowlands of the Danakil Depression is also extremely dry and hyperarid in terms of annual average rainy...
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    Ethiopia. Lakes portal Brine pool – Accumulation of brine in a seafloor depression Halocline – Stratification of a body of water due to salinity differences...
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    Afar Depression: lowest land in Africa 2 Qattara Depression Egypt −133 m (−436 ft) 3 Danakil Depression Ethiopia −125 m (−410 ft) in Afar Depression 4 Sebkha...
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    the late early Pleistocene bone remains from Buia (Dandero Basin, Danakil Depression, Eritrea): evidence for large mammal and reptile butchery. Rivista...
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    mountains between the Buri Peninsula and the Dallol Depression, which is within the larger Danakil Depression, near Eritrea's border with Ethiopia. As mentioned...
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    Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. Recent expeditions have included the Danakil Depression in Ethiopia, studying water metabolism in mules; ecological surveys...
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    anatomically modern humans. It is believed that the section of the Danakil Depression in Eritrea was also a major player in terms of human evolution, and...
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    the climate can be significantly hotter and drier. Dallol, in the Danakil Depression in this eastern zone, has the world's highest average annual temperature...
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