Bas Saharan Basin

Bas Saharan Basin

The Bas Saharan Basin ( _ar. وادي بس صحران) is an Artesian aquifer system which covers most of the Algerian and Tunisian Sahara and extends to
Morocco and Libya, enclosing the whole of the Grand Erg Oriental.


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