Lexicographical Neighbors of Hammadas
Literary usage of Hammadas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts by Archaeological Institute of America (1885)
"... peaks of the hammadas chain. There are two triumphal arches, one of them raised
in honor of Trajan, the other curious from its architectural design. ..."
2. The Development of Africa: A Study in Applied Geography by Arthur Silva White (1892)
"They are backed in the south by stony desert lands, called hammadas and serirs—of
which the latter are relatively the higher; and the uniform flatness along ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"... were seen on the hammadas, and antelopes were common on the erg districts (Bull.
Soc. géogr., Paris, XVI-, 1895, 10-74). ..."
4. Africa by Augustus Henry Keane (1907)
"... and other escarpments of the plateau encompassing the capital; in Fezzan and
the hammadas the Arabs, pure or mixed, are dominant; ..."
5. A Textbook of Geology by Amadeus William Grabau (1920)
"So-called stony deserts or hammadas are produced by the removal by wind of all
fine products of disintegration, leaving only the coarser fragments, ..."
6. Africa by Augustus Henry Keane (1907)
"... and other escarpments of the plateau encompassing the capital; in Fezzan and
the hammadas the Arabs, pure or mixed, are dominant; ..."
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