Irrigation channel in the Palmyra oasis
by Simon Gascoin, CNRS/CESBIO, Toulouse, France
Main irrigation channel in the oasis of Palmyra located in the arid syrian steppe (Tadmur in arabic). Irrigation is an ancestral technique in Palmyra which is now threatened by excessive groundwater pumping.
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- Asia (1063)
- Western Asia (303)
- Syrian Arab Republic (3)
- Exact location (38.2709 E, 34.5470 N)
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2003
Submitted on 5 May 2008
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Simon Gascoin (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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