Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The Flooding of the An Account of the Proposed Plan for Opening Central Africa to Commerce by . The Sahara Sea was the name of a hypothetical macro-engineering project which proposed flooding endorheic basins in the Sahara Desert with waters from the Atlantic Ocean or . The goal of this unrealized project was to create an inland sea that would cover the substantial areas of the Sahara Desert which lie below sea level, bringing humid air, rain, and agriculture deep into the desert. Contents. History 19th century 20th century 21st century Appearances in literature Other desert flooding projects References. The possibility of such a project was raised several times by different scientists and engineers during the late 19th century and early 20th century, primarily from European colonial powers in Africa. [1] [2] The concept of a flooded Sahara was also featured in novels of the time. [3] History. 19th century. In 1877 the Scottish entrepreneur and abolitionist Donald Mackenzie was the first to propose the creation of a Sahara Sea. Mackenzie's idea was to cut a channel from one of the sand-barred lagoons north of , south to a large plain which Arab traders had identified to him as El Djouf. [4] [5] Mackenzie believed this vast region was up to 61 metres (200 ft) below sea level and that flooding it would create an inland sea of 155,400 square kilometres (60,000 sq mi) suited to commercial navigation and even agriculture. He further believed that geological evidence suggested this basin had once been connected to the Atlantic via a channel near the Saguia el-Hamra. He proposed that this inland sea, if augmented with a canal, could provide access to the Niger River and the markets and rich resources of West Africa. [5] There are several small depressions in the vicinity of Cape Juby; at 55 m below sea level, the Sebkha Tah [6] is the lowest and largest. But it covers less than 250 km² and is 500 km north of the geographical area identified as El Djouf (also known as the Majabat al-Koubra [7] ) which has an average elevation of 320m. Mackenzie never travelled in this area but had read of other sub-sea level desert basins in present-day , , and similar to those found near Cape Juby. [5] These basins contain seasonally dry salt lakes, known as or sebkhas. Map of Tunisia illustrating the area of Rourdaire's proposed Sahara Sea. François Elie Roudaire, a French geographer, and , a diplomat influential in the creation of the , proposed this area for the creation of an inland sea in 1878. Roudaire and de Lesseps proposed that a channel be cut from the Gulf of Gabès in the Mediterranean to the el Fejej [8] which would allow the sea to drain into these basins. They were not specific in the area such a sea would cover (although subsequent analyses suggested that it would be considerably smaller than Mackenzie's proposal at only 8,000 square kilometres (3,100 sq mi) in area), but argued that the new inland sea would improve the quality of weather on the European continent. [1] [2] [9] The estimated cost of the Roudaire project was $30,000,000 at the time. [9] While Roudaire and de Lesseps were optimistic about the weather effects that such an inland sea would produce in Europe, others were not as hopeful. Alexander William Mitchinson argued that flooding substantial areas would create disease-ridden swamps. [1] [10] Others were critical of the feasibility of the project or the proposal to join the sea at El Djouf with the sea in what is now Tunisia and Algeria. [1] The project was ultimately rejected by the French Government and funding was withdrawn when surveys revealed that many areas were not below sea level as had been believed. [2] [11] 20th century. The proposal to create a Sahara Sea was revived in the early 1900s by French professor Edmund Etchegoyen. Around 1910, Etchegoyen proposed that a longer and deeper channel could be constructed. He argued that such a sea could be a boon for colonization and could potentially produce an inland sea half the size of the Mediterranean. [12] This proposal was considered by the French government but also rejected. Critics noted that, while some parts of the Sahara Desert were indeed below sea level, much of the Sahara Desert was above sea level. This, they said, would produce an irregular sea of bays and coves; it would also be considerably smaller than estimates by Etchegoyen suggested. [1] Map of the illustrating the proposed routes of canals or tunnels linking it to the Mediterranean. A proposal similar to that of Roudaire and de Lesseps was raised by members of Operation Plowshare, an American idea to use nuclear explosives in civil engineering projects such as the Qattara Depression Project. [13] It was also suggested that nuclear explosives might be detonated to create a channel from the Mediterranean to the chotts of Tunisia. [11] [14] This proposal was abandoned, [11] however, with the signing of various treaties prohibiting peaceful nuclear explosions. [13] 21st century. The project regained steam in the mid 2010s with the creation of the association Cooperation Road [15] which in 2018 obtained the approval of the Tunisian government. [16] Appearances in literature. The notion of a Sahara Sea has been featured several times in literature, most notably in Jules Verne's last novel, Invasion of the Sea , which directly referred to the plan of Roudaire and de Lesseps. [3] The idea of a flooded Sahara Desert also occurs in The Secret People by John Wyndham. Other desert flooding projects. Since the late 19th century there have been proposals to connect Lake Eyre in the South Australian desert to the ocean via canal. [17] In 1905, engineers working on an irrigation canal in southern California accidentally released the waters of the Colorado River into a formerly dry basin, creating a large saline lake known as the Salton Sea. Although the lake has shrunk considerably since its creation, it remains the largest lake in the state of California. Related Research Articles. Algeria comprises 2,381,741 square kilometers of land, more than four-fifths of which is desert, in northern Africa, between and Tunisia. It is the largest country in Africa. Its name, Al Jazair, derives from the name of the capital Algiers, after the small islands formerly found in its harbor. It has a long Mediterranean coastline. The northern portion, an area of mountains, valleys, and plateaus between the Mediterranean Sea and the Sahara Desert, forms an integral part of the section of North Africa known as the . This area includes Morocco, Tunisia, and Libya. Tunisia is a country in Northern Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, having a western border with Algeria (965 km) and south-eastern border with Libya (459 km) where the width of land tapers to the south-west into the Sahara. The country has north, east and complex east-to- north coasts including the curved Gulf of Gabès, which forms the western part of Africa's Gulf of Sidra. Most of this greater gulf forms the main coast of Libya including the city of Sirte which shares its root name. The country's geographic coordinates are 34°00′N 9°00′E . Tunisia occupies an area of 163,610 square kilometres, of which 8,250 are water. The principal and reliable rivers rise in the north of the country with a few notable exceptions from north-east Algeria and flow through the northern plain where sufficient rainfall supports diverse plant cover and irrigated agriculture. Lake Chad is a historically large, shallow, endorheic lake in Africa, which has varied in size over the centuries. According to the Global Resource Information Database of the United Nations Environment Programme, it shrank by as much as 95% from about 1963 to 1998, but "the 2007 (satellite) image shows significant improvement over previous years." Lake Chad is economically important, providing water to more than 30 million people living in the four countries surrounding it on the central part of the Sahel. It is the largest lake in the Chad Basin. Cape Juby is a cape on the coast of southern Morocco, near the border with Western Sahara, directly east of the Canary Islands. Ferdinand Marie, vicomte de Lesseps , GCSI was a French diplomat and later developer of the Suez Canal, which in 1869 joined the Mediterranean and Red Seas, substantially reducing sailing distances and times between Europe and East Asia. An is a limited drainage basin that normally retains water and allows no outflow to other external bodies of water, such as rivers or oceans, but converges instead into lakes or swamps, permanent or seasonal, that equilibrate through evaporation. Such a basin may also be referred to as a closed or terminal basin or as an internal drainage system or interior drainage basin . In geology, a chott or shott is a salt lake in Africa's Maghreb that stays dry for much of the year but receives some water in the winter. The elevation of a chott surface is controlled by the position of the water table and capillary fringe, with sediment deflation occurring when the water table falls and sediment accumulation occurring when the water table rises. They are formed—within variable shores—by the spring thaw from the Atlas mountain range, along with occasional rainwater or groundwater sources in the Sahara, such as the Bas Saharan Basin. El Oued is a Saharan province of Algeria dominated by Oued Souf . It was named after its eponymous capital. Notable towns include El Oued itself and El M'Ghair, Djamaa and Guemar. Tarfaya is a coastal Moroccan town, located at the level of Cape Juby, in southwestern Morocco, on the Atlantic coast. It is located about 890 km southwest of the capital Rabat, and around 100 km from Laayoune and Lanzarote, in the far east of the Canary Islands. During the colonial era, Tarfaya was a Spanish colony known as Villa Bens . It was unified with Morocco in 1958 after the Ifni War, which started one year after the independence of other regions of Morocco. Tozeur is the westernmost of the 24 governorates (provinces) of Tunisia and as such bordering Algeria. It covers an area of 4,719 km² and has a population of 107,912 making it the least populated province. The capital is Tozeur. also spelled Sciott Gerid and Shott el Jerid , is a large endorheic salt lake in southern Tunisia. The name can be translated from the Arabic into English as "Lagoon of the Land of Palms". A term typically used by Earth scientists, a sabkha is a coastal, supratidal mudflat or sandflat in which evaporite-saline minerals accumulate as the result of semiarid to arid climate. Sabkhas are gradational between land and intertidal zone within restricted coastal plains just above normal high- tide level. Within a sabkha, evaporite-saline minerals sediments typically accumulate below the surface of mudflats or sandflats. Evaporite-saline minerals, tidal-flood, and aeolian deposits characterize many sabkhas found along modern coastlines. The accepted type locality for a sabkha is at the southern coast of the Persian Gulf, in the United Arab Emirates. Sabkha is a phonetic translation of the Arabic word used to describe any form of salt flat. A sabkha is also known as a sabkhah, sebkha , or coastal sabkha . The Grand Erg Oriental is a large erg or "field of sand dunes" in the Sahara Desert. Situated for the most part in Saharan lowlands of northeast Algeria, the Grand Erg Oriental covers an area some 600 km wide by 200 km north to south. The erg's northeastern edge spills over into neighbouring Tunisia. The are a series of lakes in central Tunisia, lying south of the at the northern edge of the Sahara. The lakes include, from east to west, the Chott el Fedjedj, Chott el Djerid, and Chott el Gharsa. Invasion of the Sea is an adventure novel written by Jules Verne. It was published in 1905, the last to be published in the author's lifetime, and describes the exploits of Berber nomads and European travelers in Saharan Africa. The European characters arrive to study the feasibility of flooding a low-lying region of the Sahara desert to create an inland sea and open up the interior of Northern Africa to trade. In the end, however, the protagonists' pride in humanity's potential to control and reshape the world is humbled by a cataclysmic earthquake which results in the natural formation of just such a sea. , also referred to as Panropa , was a gigantic engineering and colonisation idea that was devised by the German architect Herman Sörgel in the 1920s and promoted by him until his death, in 1952. Its central feature was a hydroelectric dam to be built across the Strait of Gibraltar, which would have provided enormous amounts of hydroelectricity and would have led to the lowering of the surface of the Mediterranean Sea by up to 200 metres (660 ft), opening up large new lands for settlement, such as in the Adriatic Sea. The project proposed four additional major dams as well: François Élie Roudaire was a French author, military officer and geographer. He, along with Ferdinand de Lesseps, was a proponent of creating an inland Sahara Sea by flooding areas of the Sahara Desert which were below sea level. Chott el Fejej , also known as Chott el Fedjedj and Chott el Fejaj , is a long, narrow inlet of the endorheic salt lake Chott el Djerid in southern Tunisia. Zeroud Oued is a stream in central Tunisia at Latitude, it flows via Sebkhet Cherita Lake, into the Mediterranean Sea at the Gulf of Hammamet. The Flooding of the Sahara. An Account of the Proposed Plan for Opening Central Africa to Commerce and Civilization from the North-West Coast, with a Description of Soudan and Western Sahara, and Notes on Ancient Manuscripts, etc. Title: The Flooding of the Sahara. An Account of . Publisher: London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1877. Publication Date: 1877. 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Zusammenfassung: Zur Beurteilung der Entwicklungsperspektiven eines sahrauischen Nationalstaates ist ein Blick auf die terrestrische Ressourcenstruktur des Landes von Nutzen. Die Kenntnis des natürlichen Reichtums an Bodenschätzen ermöglicht eine Prognose der zukünftigen Entwicklung der Infrastruktur des Landes. Westsahara verfügt über bedeutende Erzlagerstätten. So gibt es beachtliche Vorkommen an hochqualitativen Eisenerzen, Stahlveredlern, Uran und Kupfer. Die Existenz von Edelmetallvorkommen (Gold und Silber) und Manganlagerstätten ist wahrscheinlich. Die immensen Ressourcen der Phosphatlagerstätten ermöglichen Exporte von mehreren Millionen Jahrestonnen. Auch Erdöl, Ölschiefer, Erdgas und Kohle sind in der Westsahara in bedeutenden Dimensionen vorhanden. Interessante Potentiale ergeben sich auch im Bereich der Salzproduktion, dem Edelsteinhandel und dem Energiesektor. Die Bewertung der Bodenschätze Westsaharas bereitet, mangels ausreichender Informationen gewisse Schwierigkeiten. Da weite Teile des Landes während der letzten 200 Jahre kontinuierlich als Kriegs- und Krisengebiet einzustufen sind, waren sorgfältige, flächendeckende, bodengestützte Prospektionsarbeiten bis heute nicht möglich. Vermutlich fielen bestimmte Prospektionsergebnisse strategischen Interessen zum Opfer. Ein Großteil der privatwirtschaftlichen Untersuchungsergebnisse, die im Zuge der wirtschaftlichen Liberalisierung zu Beginn der sechziger Jahre stattfanden, wurde bisher aus wirtschaftspolitischen Gründen nicht veröffentlicht. Auch über die neueren Ergebnisse marokkanischer Untersuchungen im besetzten Gebiet, herrscht Unklarheit. Die Erkenntnisse dieser Arbeit stützen sich auf eine Auswertung der verfügbaren Veröffentlichungen, auf Recherchen bei der Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe in Hannover, auf Auswertungen verschiedener Satellitenbilddaten und auf eigenen Untersuchungen im der Westsahara. Der vorliegende Artikel beschäftigt sich nur mit den terrestrischen Ressourcen, Energie und Bodenschätze. Analysen zum Agrarsektor und zum touristischen Potential werden folgen. Geologische Skizze der Republik Westsahara. Zum besseren Verständnis der Verteilung terrestrischer Ressourcen ist ein Blick auf die geologischen Verhältnisse des Landes nötig. Gemäß der Abb. 1 handelt es sich bei der Republik Westsahara um ein in acht Landschaftszonen gegliedertes Trockengebiet, daß sämtliche Landschaftsformen einer tropischen Wüste, aber auch der Dornbuschlandschaften aufweist. Weite Teile Westsaharas werden durch den präkambrischen Reguibatsattels geprägt, der für die Auffaltung der paläozoischen Schichten zur Schichtstufenlandschaft des Saquiet el Hamras verantwortlich ist. Im Südosten wird der Sattel durch rezente Dünen des Erg Azefals überdeckt. In verschiedenen Bereichen geben Inselberge Zeugnis von überwiegend sauren Intrusionen zur Zeit des Paläozoikums. Im Südwesten des Sattels bildete sich durch eine paläozoische Störung die Gebirgslandschaft des Adrar heraus. Der Westgrenze des Sattels gliedert sich die marine, krezianische bis tertiäre Sedimentfolge der Atlantischen Beckenlandschaften an, deren Sebkhen (Salzniederungen deren Sohle teilweise unter NN liegt) auch für die typische Gestaltung des Küstenverlaufs verantwortlich sind. Weite Teile der Beckenlandschaft werden von Hamadas (Steinwüsten), Regs (Kieswüsten) und in Küstennähe durch mobile Dünen geprägt. Der Nordosten Westsaharas wird durch die Hochebene der Hamada von Tindouf gestaltet, die zum Teil zur Schichtstufenlandschaft des Saquiet el Hamra hin entwässert. zum Vergrößern bitte Karte anklicken. Das terrestrische Ressourcenpotential Westsaharas -eine Option für eine exportorientierte Wirtschaft. Westsahara ist reich an terrestrischen Ressourcenpotentialen. Von besonderer Bedeutung sind in mineralische Vorkommen an Phosphat, Eisen, Uran, Titan, und Edelsteinen.. Darüber hinaus werden in der Westsahara bedeutende Vorkommen an Kohlenwasserstoffen (Öl, Gas) und Vanadium, sowie im "offshore Bereich" an Mangan vermutet. Wenngleich man nicht von einem "Kuweit des Maghreb" sprechen kann, ist es abzusehen, daß das Land seiner Bevölkerung relativen Reichtum bescheren wird. Wegen der geringen Bevölkerungsdichte, wird es im Falle von Investitionen im Bergbausektor zu starken Zuwanderungsbewegungen aus den Nachbarländern kommen. Um soziale und ethnische Konflikte zu verhindern, sollte sich die Regierung Westsaharas schon möglichst früh auf dieses Phänomen vorbereiten. Aeromagnetische Befliegungen im Jahre 1965 ergaben, daß in der zentralen Westsahara insgesamt 46 magnetische Anomalien zu verzeichnen sind, die allesamt auf bedeutende Eisenerzlagerstätten hinweisen. Der gesamte Südwesten des Landes, der durch den präkambrischen Sattel der Tiris Ebene eingenommen wird, gilt als außerordentlich höffig. Verschiedene Untersuchungen, wie die der Geologen THEURKAUF und GROVER belegen den Eisenreichtum der Region. Im Bereich der Sfariat Range, nahe dem mauretanischen Grenzgebiet dokumentierten die beiden Geologen 1972 eine itaberitische Lagerstätte hoher Konzentration. Die Qualität der Erze wurde wegen des geringen Schwefelanteils und der hohen Fe Konzentration positiv eingeschätzt. Insgesamt wurden 25 Millionen Tonnen Eisenerz mit Konzentrationen von über 50 Prozent, 300 Millionen Tonnen mit einer Konzentration von bis zu 40 Prozent und 75 Millionen Tonnen mit einer Konzentration von 38 Prozent errechnet. Schätzungen zufolge sollen noch 800 Millionen Tonnen als weitere Reserve vorhanden sein. Bemerkenswert ist, daß diese Lagerstätte insgesamt größer und qualitativ besser einzuschätzen ist, als die nahe gelegene bekannte mauretanische Lagerstätte von Zouerate, deren Potential mit nur noch 1 Milliarde Tonnen bei einer Konzentration von nur 38 Prozent angegeben wird. Neben den Vorkommen der Sfariat Range wurden auch nahe Agracha bedeutende Lagerstätten auf Illmenit Basis gefunden. HODGES gibt in diesem Zusammenhang eine Gesamtreserve von 72 Millionen Tonnen bei einer Konzentration von etwa 57 Prozent an. Eine Hochrechnung der Agrachakapazität auf die oben genannten 46 elektromagnetischen Anomalien der zentralen Westsahara, die allesamt intensiver als die von Agracha waren, zeigt, daß allein in diesem Raum mit einer Gesamtreserve von mindestens 3,3 Milliarden Tonnen Eisenerz zu rechnen ist. Auch im Norden des Landes wurden in der Nähe der Stadt Smara durch das spanische Instituto Nacional de Industria, INI , Hämatit Lagerstätten mit Konzentrationen von bis zu 65 Prozent festgestellt und in Richtung Tindouf, wo auf algerischer Seite die auf 5 Milliarden Tonnen geschätzte Lagerstätte von Gara Djebilet liegt, werden weitere bedeutende Vorkommen vermutet. Western Civilization, First Edition, Signed. 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He writes from his guts, as the son of a great clown, of the irresistable mystery of comedy. This is John Lahr's best book." Will be bubble-wrapped to protect its corners and shipped in a sturdy box to make sure it arrives in pristine condition. ". Signed by Author(s). Saving Freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for Western Civilization Specially Bound Edition. Scarborough, Joe. Published by Harper, 2020. First Edition Signed. Used - Hardcover Condition: Fine. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition/First Printing. A square solid tight clean unread unused unopened copy. This copy has been signed by the author with a one word generic inscription. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND NORMALLY SHIPS NEXT DAY. Signed by Author(s). Book. The Flooding of the Sahara. An Account of the Proposed Plan for Opening Central Africa to Commerce and Civilization from the North-West Coast, with a Description of Soudan and Western Sahara, and Notes on Ancient Manuscripts, etc. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1877 Stock Code: 119282. Notes. First edition. Presentation copy of this wonderful piece of Victorian imperialist folly, inscribed to "M. de Vernsuillet, with the authors Compts, 11 Oct. 1880" on the front free endpaper. With two manuscript sketch-maps laid-in, annotated in French presumably by the recipient, and depicting Cape Juby, now in southern Morocco, where the author, MacKenzie, established a British trading-station in 1875, and from where he proposed to cut a channel into the al-Juf depression of the western Sahara, thereby making western Africa and the Sudan accessible to European vessels from the north. MacKenzie argued that his plan would enable the more effective policing of the slave trade and improved transportation of European goods to central African markets, pointing out that the continent's main rivers, such as the Congo and the Nile, were not navigable for their entire courses, so that camel caravan was the only means of access to remote areas. The plan had originally been suggested by French engineer François Roudaire in 1870, and Mackenzie could demonstrate the personal support of Sir Bartle Frere, though his claim to territory at Cape Juby, granted by a local sheikh in 1879, was fiercely contested by Hassan I, sultan of Morocco, and he was forced to withdraw by 1890; at any rate, the entire idea has in recent years been demonstrated as "a potential macro-engineering fiasco" (Badescu and Cathcart, eds, Macro- engineering Seawater in Unique Environments, p. 493). Uncommon: this copy furnishes the only recorded appearance at auction, in 2003. Description. Octavo. Original pink cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt, decorative panel to front board in black and rear board in blind, yellow surface- paper endpapers. Illustrations. Wood-engraved frontispiece, 8 similar plates, engravings to the text of which 3 full-page, folding map coloured in outline. Condition. Monogram bookplate of Humphrey Winterton to front pastedown; 2 laid-in manuscript sketch-maps, one in in watercolour and black ink and measuring approx. 165 x 105 mm, the other in pencil, 180 x 115 mm, with further annotations verso. Slightly rubbed, spine sunned, pale mottling to boards, sporadic light spotting. A very good copy.