Irrigation channel in the Palmyra oasis
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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1024 px
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723 px
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1024:723
Taken
1 July 2003
Coordinates
34.5470, 38.2709
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Bluish white
Submitted
5 May 2008
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Simon Gascoin (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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