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I guess you are imagining wrong then. Either way, the US southwest desert is quite a bit different than the Saudi Arabian desert.
by jsprogrammer 11y ago
I guess you are imagining wrong then.
Either way, the US southwest desert is quite a bit different than the Saudi Arabian desert.
- WildUtah 11y agoWatching Lawrence of Arabia I kept trying to identify the geologic layers in the familiar rock formations. Then I realized that it was actually filmed in Arabia. It only looked like Arizona. So no, I don't expect that a non-geologist would find the American southwest so very novel compared to Saudi. But I've never, ever been bored in the American southwest in tens of thousands of hours of travel there.
- jsprogrammer 11y agoI don't doubt that rocks have similar compositions throughout the world, but even a cursory examination of the areas from a distance reveals many differences. For one, the US southwest doesn't have huge swaths of fine sand. US southwest vs Saudi Arabia @ same scale http://imgur.com/a/OkRuI http://imgur.com/a/OkRuI