Mount Al-Ṭubayq

mountain, Arabian Desert, Arabian Peninsula

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Mount Al-Tubayq is a sandstone mountain located in the Arabian Desert on the Arabian Peninsula. It is characterized by deep wadis (ephemeral watercourses) that cut through its mass. This mountain is part of a series of cuestas, which are ridges with steep faces on one side and gentle slopes on the other, found in the region. Mount Al-Tubayq is noted as one of the most prominent of these cuestas. The Arabian Desert itself is a vast plateau with varied topography, including mountainous highlands, plateaus, and extensive sand deserts like Al-Nafud and Rub' al Khali.12

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Arabian Desert
Physiography
To the southeast, Mount Al-Ṭubayq rises higher, standing as a mass of sandstone deeply cut by numerous wadis (ephemeral watercourses). Farther southeast the plateaus of Tabūk, Taymāʾ, Ṭawīl, Al-Ḥufrah, and Al-Hūj reach to the western edge of Al-Nafūd (or Great Nafud), a large sand desert in the north.…
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To the southeast, Mount Al-Ṭubayq rises higher, standing as a mass of sandstone deeply cut by numerous wadis (ephemeral watercourses). Farther southeast the plateaus of Tabūk, Taymāʾ, Ṭawīl, Al-Ḥufrah, and Al-Hūj reach to the western edge of Al-Nafūd (or Great Nafud), a large sand desert in the north.…
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Jordan
History of Jordan
…part of the country, at Mount Al-Ṭubayq, rock carvings date from several prehistoric periods, the earliest of which have been attributed to the Paleolithic-Mesolithic era. The site at Tulaylāt al-Ghassūl in the Jordan Valley of a well-built village with painted plaster walls may represent transitional developments from the Neolithic to…
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…part of the country, at Mount Al-Ṭubayq, rock carvings date from several prehistoric periods, the earliest of which have been attributed to the Paleolithic-Mesolithic era. The site at Tulaylāt al-Ghassūl in the Jordan Valley of a well-built village with painted plaster walls may represent transitional developments from the Neolithic to…
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