Central Saharan Threshold
The Middle Saharan Threshold is a threshold that divides the Sahara desert in Africa diagonally in an east-west direction and towers up to 3415 m high.
location
It is located in the area around and between the massifs of Tibesti (up to 3415 m) and Ahaggar (up to 2918 m). There the threshold extends in an east-west direction from southern Algeria , over parts of Niger , Chad to Sudan .
geography
It runs over an area of extinct volcanoes from Hoggar via Aïr , Tibesti , Ennedi to Jebel Marra / Darfur .
The Iforas Mountains do not belong to the threshold because of their sandstone deposits.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Africa: Resources, Economy, Development, Teubner, 1997, p. 33 Online
- ↑ Classical antiquity, late antiquity and early Christianity: Dedicated to Adolf Lippold on the occasion of his 65th birthday, self-published by the Seminar for Ancient History, 1993, p. 5 Online ( Memento of the original from June 9, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 24 ° 24 ' N , 5 ° 38' E