Three Sand Seas
The three sand seas, which contain dunes up to 512 meters in height, cover approximately one quarter of the region. They include:
- Great Sand Sea
- Calanshio Sand Sea
- Rebiana Sand Sea
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“This sand seemed to us the connecting link between land and water. It was a kind of water on which you could walk, and you could see the ripple-marks on its surface, produced by the winds, precisely like those at the bottom of a brook or lake. We had read that Mussulmans are permitted by the Koran to perform their ablutions in sand when they cannot get water, a necessary indulgence in Arabia, and we now understand the propriety of this provision.”
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