#dasht-e kavir

[dross-the-fish]

How did Erik adjust to living in the desert?

Presumably you're talking about when he lived in Persia (Qajar Dynasty Iran) He lived in Mazandaran which isn't a desert at all, it's a coastal province on Iran's northern border on the Caspian sea. Geographically it's a coastal plain and mountains, there are lots of dense forests and green valleys. There are only two proper desert regions in Iran, Dasht-e Kavir being the one closest to Mazandaran and Tehran, which is the capital just south of Mazandaran and a place Erik would likely have visited often and not likely Erik would have spent much, if any time in the actual desert.

[dailyoverview]

Dasht-e Kavir is a large desert in the middle of the Iranian Plateau. Spanning roughly 30,000 square miles (77,600 square kilometers), the so-called “Great Salt Desert” has recorded temperatures up to 122°F (50°C). This heat causes extreme vaporization that turns marshes and mud grounds into swirling crusts of salt, like those featured in this Overview.

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Source imagery: Planet

[takethisride]

Dasht-e Kavir, Iran

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[et-cetacea]

Great Salt Desert, Iran

The Dasht-e Kavir (دشت كوير), or Great Salt Desert, is the largest desert in Iran. It is primarily uninhabited wasteland, composed of mud and salt marshes covered with crusts of salt that protect the meager moisture from completely evaporating.

This image was taken by the Landsat 7 satellite on October 24, 2000. It is a false-color composite image made using infrared, green and red wavelengths. The image has also been sharpened using the sensor’s panchromatic band.

⤷ Image provided by the U.S. Geological Survey EROS Data Center Satellite Systems Branch. Caption adapted from text originally provided by NASA’s Earth Observatory. 

Source: NASA/USGS Landsat 7; NASA Earth Observatory. 🪐🌟

[naturecopy]

🔥 Dasht-e Kavir (a/k/a The Great Salt Desert), Iran; located about 300 kilometers east of Tehran. Runoff from the surrounding mountains creates seasonal lakes and marshes. High temperatures cause the water to evaporate, leaving behind clays and sand soils with a high concentration of minerals.

[mostly-history]

Dasht-e Kavir (Iran, October 2000).

Also known as the Great Salt Desert, the Dasht-e Kavir is the largest desert in Iran.  It is mostly uninhabited wasteland, made up of mud and salt marshes covered with salt crusts that protect the meagre moisture from completely evaporating.

[earthstory]

The Dasht-e Kevir

One does not typically think of deserts in aesthetically pleasing notions. Yet this image of the Great Salt Desert in Iran, which was captured by astronauts on the International Space Station, makes a barren wasteland look like an abstract painting, with lines and curves intersecting and bisecting each other in seemingly fractal patterns.

Also known as Dasht-e Kavir (literally translated from Persian as “desert of salt-marsh”), this vast desert stretches across the Iranian Plateau with an area of about 77,600 km2. As hinted by its name, Dasht-e Kavir has a wealth of salt domes, which were formed from evaporation of an ancient ocean that had once covered the landscape. Because salt is relatively less dense than most rocks, its burial by any new rock can be short-lived as the salt can press against the overlying weight, forming domes. Wind, rain, and other physical processes can erode away at the salt domes, cutting away through cross-sections and exposing the complex layering visible in the image.

Of course, like any desert, its climate is one of extremes. The dry heat of Dasht-e Kavir often alternates with severe storms that shape the desert’s salt marshes through intense cycles of evaporation, inundation, and erosion. Much of the landscape is uninhabitable due to the harsh environment, making it a pristine hinterland perfect for desert and salt dome research.

-DC

References and further reading https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/83438/kavir-desert-iran https://www.universetoday.com/110872/believe-it-or-not-this-is-stunning-blue-landscape-is-a-desert-as-seen-from-space/amp/

Photo Credit: NASA Earth Observatory

[mojtabatrkian]

Of Moon and Sun

[fishstickmonkey]

(via Dust in the Dasht-e Kavir : Image of the Day)

[architecturefiles]

There is a way to master silence, control its curves, inhabit its dark corners, and listen to the hiss of time outside.

Paul Bowles on the Dasht-e Kavir

[javadafilms]

The Mystical Paradise - Documentary - [Trailer]

The Mystical Paradise - The beautiful deserts of Iran. This  uniq documentary shows the tourism areas of Dashte Lut and Dashte Kavir deserts of Iran. 

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/themysticalparadise 

 ☝️Rent & watch  the full video in the top  link! ☝️ 

 The Mystical Paradise (Iran, 2018, 55 mins.)

 Helishots with poetic narrative has turned this documentary to a dreamy film. Vast plains, sand hills, ponds and migratory birds, palm trees, camels and caravansaries, villages and monuments, and the tourist who have traveled to these areas are the beautiful landscapes of this film.

 Scriptwriter: Mahboobeh Tabaie Aqdaie 

Directed by: Ali Jahani, Javad Daneshvar 

Production Company: Javada Film https://javadafilm.com

[dailyoverview]

Dasht-e Kavir is a large desert in the middle of the Iranian Plateau. Spanning roughly 30,000 square miles (77,600 square kilometers), temperatures in the “Great Salt Desert” can soar up to 122°F (50°C), causing extreme vaporization that turns marshes and mud grounds into swirling crusts of salt, as seen in this segment of the desert here.

See more here: https://bit.ly/3JZmiNg

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Source imagery: Maxar

[on-top-of-everest]

Consider, if you would:

NSA: nerds

FBI: Jocks

CIA: Theatre kids

[lalignedujour]

Aujourd'hui est apparue la carte de vingt ans de parcours d'un aigle. Il a survolé quinze pays, de sa naissance en Russie à sa mort en Arabie Saoudite, en passant par l'Iran et l'Éthiopie. Pensée toute bête mais intense : il n'y a pas vu des pays mais des paysages. Les Carpates, la Caspienne, le Dasht-e Kavir, le Canal de Suez.

Voler, oui d'accord. Mais c'est ça aussi être un oiseau : ne pas mettre de noms sur les territoires.

[hipersia]