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Erfoud | Dune stabilization and khettara |
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These mounds represent access shafts to a channel transporting water from a well to the place of need. Such systems (called khettara or qanat) exist since ancient times.
- Location
- View on OpenStreetMap
- Created
- on Thursday 1 April 2004 by Martin Mergili
- Region
- Keywords
- aeolian processes, dunescape, hot deserts, Zonobiome III
- Visits and license
- 4812 visits, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 DEED license