Le Sahara (Registro nro. 117093)
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| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | fr |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | DT |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Gautier, E. F. |
| Fuller form of name | (Emile Félix), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1864-1940 |
| 245 13 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Le Sahara |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| Source | rdamedia |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2025-06-24 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Galo Flordelis (This file was produced from images generously made available by Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Le Sahara by E. F. Gautier is a scientific study written in the early 20th century. It synthesizes exploration records and modern science to explain the Sahara’s physical geography—its structure, climate, landforms, flora and fauna—and what these mean for human habitation. The work emphasizes deserts as climatic phenomena, the interaction of wind and water in shaping the land, and the Sahara’s role as a vast barrier between Mediterranean North Africa and the Sudanic south. The opening of the book sketches how the desert came to be known, then lays out why it exists where it does: latitude-linked high-pressure belts over the Atlantic, low relief and coastlines aligned with latitude, and limited mountain barriers intensify aridity. It describes the region’s geology as an ancient continental “shield” capped in places by younger sediments and punctuated by volcanic massifs, with relief organized along broad east–west and north–south fault trends. Climate is defined by extreme dryness, sharp temperature swings, powerful dusty winds (including regional variants like sirocco and khamsin), highly irregular cloudbursts that do the real hydrologic work, and the adaptive strategies of sparse plants and animals; human presence is thin and concentrated in oases, and the desert forms a historical divide between Maghreb and Sudan. The text then sets the rules of desert landforming: endorheic basins, vast gravel plains (reg/serir), rock tables (hamadas), and dunes (ergs) whose shapes and stability reflect underlying fluvial topography; it stresses the joint roles of water and wind, the sorting of sands, and protective crusts that limit deflation. Finally, it turns to the past, arguing for the desert’s great antiquity (even petrified ancient ergs), while highlighting a wetter Quaternary phase when large rivers radiated from the Hoggar toward the Niger and the chotts, leaving fish, crocodile, and other tropical relics—yet still ending in closed basins rather than the sea. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | Paris: Payot, 1923 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Sahara |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://opendata.uni-halle.de/explore?bitstream_id=a1eb5957-18d8-4a77-a888-246750389564&handle=1981185920/35778&provider=iiif-image">https://opendata.uni-halle.de/explore?bitstream_id=a1eb5957-18d8-4a77-a888-246750389564&handle=1981185920/35778&provider=iiif-image</a> |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76368">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76368</a> |
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