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and fairly frequent flooding deposit large quantities of silty loam in much of the delta area. Windborne silt contributes to the total deposit of sediments. It has been estimated that the delta plains are built up at the rate of nearly twenty centimeters in a century. In some areas, major floods lead
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and poor surface and subsurface drainage tend to concentrate the salts near the surface of the soil. In general, the salinity of the soil increases from Baghdad south to the Persian Gulf and severely limits productivity in the region south of
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The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate: Mesopotamia, Persia, and Central Asia, from the Moslem Conquest to the Time of Timur
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and al-Jazira al-sflia ("Lower Jazira"), which strictly speaking designated only the southern alluvial plain, and
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Because the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates above their confluence are heavily
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and extending east of the Tigris beyond the Iranian border is marshland, known as
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is reflected in the large lake in central Iraq, southwest of Baghdad, known as
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to the deposit in temporary lakes of as much as thirty centimeters of mud.
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Prehistory in Northeastern Arabia – Abdullah Hassan Masry – Google Książki
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The medieval Arab geographers placed the northern border between Iraq and
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lie above the level of the plain in many places, and the whole area is a
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The Tigris and Euphrates also carry large quantities of
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interlaced by the channels of the two rivers and by
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Index

Arabian Iraq
Prehistory of Mesopotamia

historical region
Mesopotamia
alluvial plain
Iraq
Hamrin Mountains
Faw Peninsula
Persian Gulf
Sawad
Arab Iraq
Persian Iraq
Jibal
Sumer
Babylonia
Upper Mesopotamia
Anbar
Tikrit
Tigris
alluvial plain
Tikrit
Hamrin Mountains
Persian Gulf
Tigris
Euphrates
river delta
qanat
lakes
al Qurnah

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