Fw: [meteorite-list] re: BAZA DESSERT??? (slightly OT)

From: Jose Campos <josecamposcomet_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:16:37 2004
Message-ID: <009801c36ce9$ea69ae00$14c216d5_at_computername>

Hi Steve Arnold (Chicago), Marco (Holland) and List:

I can confirm that Portugal has no real desert land.
Marco's description of the SE area of Spain - Almeria - is quite a good one.
The driest land in Portugal is a small strip alongside the western banks of
the Guadiana river, close to the Portugal/Spain border in the south but it
is far from being classed as a desert - maybe a few hundred of years from
now?

José Campos
Portugal

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marco Langbroek" <marco.langbroek_at_wanadoo.nl>
To: "meteorite list" <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 9:31 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] re: BAZA DESSERT??? (slightly OT)


> > From: "Steve Arnold, Chicago!!!" <steve_arnol60120_at_yahoo.com>
> > Subject: [meteorite-list] BAZA DESSERT???
> >
> > He is trying to auction off 4 spain
> > irons.They said, they are from the " BAZA DESSERT".Dessert????? Sounds
> > like he has been eating to much dessert.I did not even know that spain
had
> > a desert.Maybe portugal??How about the ocean??
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> Technically speaking Spain has no real desert (and certainly not Portugal,
> which
> is much more oceanic), but the southeast corner of Spain where Baza is, is
> very close to it: its annual precipitation is only just above 200 mm,
> it is a semi-arid steppe although it's outlook in some parts is quite like
> desert.
> Tabernas, 50 km southeast of Baza, is the driest spot in
> Europe. I've visited that area on a couple of occasion, last in November
> 2002, and you really could think driving through Arizona there - (the area
> around Tabernas reminds me of the area near the Petrified Forest) in fact,
> it
> is the area where a lot of spaghetti-westerns have been filmed and there
is
> a wild-west town replica there complete with fortress for that purpose,
near
> the town of Sorba. In the extreme southeast point of Almeria province in
> Spain the landscape actually looks quite Morrocan - and indeed, not much
> kilometers between Marocco and that part of Europe! Take a look in the
> "travel & adventure pictures" gallery
> (http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek/gallery.html) on my website for a
> few pics taken in this part of the globe during the November 2002 visit
(we
> were there to watch the Leonid meteor storm) and marvel about this quite
> un-European landscape. Especially around Tabernas, the desert-like
landscape
> is even more aparent than from these few pictures (the bottom one is taken
> at Tabernas).
> I do not know of any meteorite finds there (and indeed would be cautious
> with these eBay items) but it might be one of the best places in Europe to
> search for them as it is the closet we Europeans have to a desert
landscape.
>
> - Marco
>
>
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>
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> meteorites_at_dmsweb.org
> http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek
>
> "What seest thou else
> In the dark backward and abysm of time?"
>
> William Shakespeare
> The Tempest act I scene 2
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