The Largest Hot Desert When imagining the vastness of the world, the Sahara Desert often stands out. 2 million square kilometers, ... expansive gravel plains, flat salt terrains, and imposing ...

However, given how big the Sahara is, these oases are actually few and far between. The bulk of the desert instead consists of rocky plateaus known as hamadas, and gravel-covered plains called ...

The Sahara desert is the largest hot desert in the world, ... plateaus, sand- and gravel-covered plains, salt flats, basins and depressions. Emi Koussi, an extinct volcano in Chad, ...

The Sahara Desert is impressively large, but for the most part fails to live up to the deserts of our imagination, containing gravel-strewn plains and painfully scrubby vegetation.

The Sahara desert, by contrast, is thought to be just two to seven million years old. ... mountains and gravel plains stretches some 31,274 square miles across Angola, ...

Our view of the Sahara -- camels riding across the desert -- no longer has anything to do with the way the real Sahara is. Most of the Sahara is made up of gravel plains and high volcanic peaks.

In fact, only a quarter of the Sahara is made up of sand; the rest includes rocky plateaus, gravel plains, and even extinct volcanoes, such as Mount Koussi in Chad, which stands 11,302 feet (3 ...

Located along south-western Africa’s Atlantic coast, the Namib Desert is one of the driest places on Earth. Meaning "an area where there is nothing" in the local Nama language, this Martian-like ...

Dating back at least 55 million years, the Namib is believed to be the world’s oldest desert (the Sahara is thought to be just two to seven million years old).