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    The Richat Structure, or Guelb er Richât (Arabic: قلب الريشات, romanized: Qalb ar-Rīšāt, Hassaniyya: [galb er.riːʃaːt] ), is a prominent circular geological...
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    the name Gadeiros (Crit. 114b) which is Eumelos = 'rich in sheep'. The Richat Structure in Mauritania has also been proposed as the site of Atlantis....
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  • Bronzit (4), Oleg Kim (5, с 7), Leonid Magergut (5-6), Marina May (5), Richat Gilmetdinov (5-6) Alexander Yaskina (5), Yevgeny Skukovsky (5-6), Evgeniya...
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    peaks are called guelbs and the larger ones kedias. The concentric Guelb er Richat is a prominent feature of the north-central region. Kediet ej Jill, near...
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    Leo Pargil Dome, Himachal Pradesh/Tibetan border Henry Mountains, Utah Richat Structure, central Mauritania; possible impact structure Upheaval Dome,...
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    peaks are called Guelbs and the larger ones Kedias. The concentric Guelb er Richat is a prominent feature of the north-central region. Kediet ej Jill, near...
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    modern settlement lies outside its gate. Ouadane is the closest town to the Richat Structure, a massive circular landmark visible from space. The early history...
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    (oued), and salt flats (shatt or chott). Unusual landforms include the Richat Structure in Mauritania. Several deeply dissected mountains, many volcanic...
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    Saharan scholar Théodore Monod. To the east beyond Ouadane is the distinctive Richat Structure, an uplifted and then heavily eroded dome of strata approximately...
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    item for exchange." Xiaochangliang Zhoukoudian Yuanmou County Koobi Fora Richat Structure Sterkfontein Saint-Acheul Bose Basin The geographic distribution...
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    Israel-Sinai or Canaan;[citation needed] and northwestern Africa, including the Richat Structure in Mauritania. The Thera eruption, dated to the seventeenth or...
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  • Obverse Reverse 20 ouguiya Red Grand Mosque of Gataga in Kaedi Guelb er Richât 28 November 2020 50 ouguiya Violet Ibn Abbas mosque, Nouakchott Teapot;...
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    Amojjar Pass, is the difficult way to Chinguetti, Ouadane and the astonishing Richat Structure. Atar has a hot desert climate (Köppen climate classification...
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  • Massif or Konder (an igneous intrusion) Salt domes on Melville Island The Richat structure (a geologic dome) The Arkenu structures (a pair of ring dikes)...
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    (shale diapir) that cause deformations and uplift in the surface rock. The Richat Structure of the Sahara is considered a dome that has been laid bare by...
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    of Texas state parks Trans-Pecos Guadalupe Mountains McKittrick Canyon Richat Structure "The Solitario". Geographic Names Information System. United States...
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  • Central African Republic, the Chicxulub crater, the Thromsberg anomaly, the Richat Structure, the Atlantic ridge, the Bay of Biscay, the Sunda Arc and the...
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    Richat Structure by Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). Instead of being a meteorite impact, the landform is more likely to be a collapsed dome fold...
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  • deposits. With his student Matton, he proposed a new interpretation of the Richat structure in Mauritani. He proposed that in the core, it has gigantic breccia...
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  • listed below, other tourist highlights in the Mauritanian Sahara include the Richat Structure just beyond Ouadane, Fort Saganne, the nearby Amojjar Pass and...
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