By:

Dimas Ayu Elsanti

Namib Desert (155090701111011)

Tania Febriola Rachmawati
(155090701111012)
Nopri Emrananta BR Sembiring
(155090701111014)
Description of
Namib Desert

Country : Namibia, South Africa, Angola

Location : Erongo, Namibia
Coordinat : 21°07′S 14°33′E
Length : 2,000 km (1,243 mi), N/S
Width : 200 km (124 mi), E/W
Area : 81,000 km2 (31,274 sq mi)
Biome : Desert
What we can find on Namib Desert?
• Namib Sand Sea is one of the worlds oldest and largest sand desert
• Namib Sand Sea is the only coastal desert in the world that includes
extensive dune fields influenced by fog
• the site is composed of two dune systems, an ancient semi-
consolidated one overlain by a younger active one.
• The desert dunes are formed by the transportation of materials
thousands of kilometres from the hinterland, that are carried by river,
ocean current and wind.
• It features gravel plains, coastal flats, rocky hills, inselbergs within the
sand sea, a coastal lagoon and ephemeral rivers, resulting in a
landscape of exceptional beauty.
Interpretation by Geomorphical Process
• Research shows that arid or
semi-arid conditions have
existed in the region of the
Namib Desert for more than
80 million years, making it the
oldest continuous desert on
earth.
• In the vicinity of shallow or dry
lakes referred to as “vleie”,
such as Sossos Vlei, contrasting
topography imposes and
additional complicating control
on the wind regime, and more
complex dune types results
Interaction between water-
laden air from the sea, wind
through the south, and the dry
air of the desert caused so
much fog and strong flow, thus
often cause the skippers lost of
Skeleton Coast in the north
area, some of these wrecks can
be found about 50 meters away
on the mainland because the
desert is moving slowly to the
west towards the sea,
reclaiming land for many years
SAND
DUNE
Literature Cited
• Vermeeschi, P, dkk. 2010. Sand residence times of one million years in the
Namib Sand Sea from cosmogenic nuclides. Jurnal
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfbpve/papers/VermeeschNatGeo2010/, diakses
pada 13 Desember 2016.
• Ian Watson dan Roy R. Lemon. 1985. Geomorphology of a Coastal Desert:
The Namib, South West Africa/Namibia. Journal of Coastal Research Vol.
1, No. 4 (Autumn, 1985), pp. 329-342 Published by: Coastal Education &
Research Foundation, Inc., diakses pada 13 Desember 2016
• http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1430/
• http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=3866
• http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2014/08/18/geography-in-the-news-
the-strangest-desert/