Origins of Arabia

Title
  1. Origins of Arabia / Andrew Thompson.
Published by
  1. London : Stacey International, [2000]
  2. ©2000
Author
  1. Thompson, Andrew, 1942-

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Description
  1. 108 pages : color illustrations; 29 cm
Summary
  1. "The Arabian peninsula is a geographical phenomenon, being entirely without continuously flowing water, and containing the largest sand desert in the world.
  2. Yet rivers once coursed its vast tilted shield through wild vegetation, emptying into what is today the Persian Gulf. And across the land bridges at today's exits from the Gulf and the Red Sea came the fauna of South Asia and of Africa.
  3. Primitive man flourished and left his stone culture in abundant evidence. The Origins of Arabia tells the story of the formation of what was to become Greater Arabia from a piece of the primal super-continent Gondwanaland as its plates thrust northward.
  4. At one stage it was covered by the ocean before being pushed up in high plateaux, massifs and escarpments."--Jacket.
Subject
  1. Geology > Arabian Peninsula
  2. Antiquities, Prehistoric > Arabian Peninsula
  3. Antiquities
  4. Antiquities, Prehistoric
  5. Geology
  6. Historische Geologie
  7. Arabian Peninsula > Antiquities
  8. Arabian Peninsula
  9. Arabien
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 107) and index.