Hamada

For other uses, see Hamada (disambiguation).
Hamada plateau at Tademaït, Algeria. Photograph by French explorer Fernand Foureau during his trans-Saharan journey in 1890.
Hamada in the interior of the Cape Verde island of Boa Vista.
Hamada desert near the Hoggar Mountains in Algeria.
Cyclists ride over Hamada to the Erg Chebbi dunes, Morocco.

A hamada (Arabic: حمادة, ḥammāda) is a type of desert landscape consisting of high, largely barren, hard rocky (basalt) plateaus, where most of the sand has been removed by deflation.[1] The majority of the Sahara is hamada.[2] Other examples are Negev desert in Israel and the Tinrhert plateau [it] in Algeria.[2]

  1. ^ "Hamada, Reg, Serir, Gibber, Saï". Springer Reference. 2013. Retrieved 2013-05-23.
  2. ^ a b "Rocky Desert (Hamada) - Features, Information, Facts". sand-boarding.com. 27 May 2022. Retrieved 2022-07-20.