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| Full Name: | Oasis |
| Date of Birth: | 1991 |
| Place of Birth: | Manchester, England |
| Claim to Fame: | Their album Definitely Maybe (1994) |
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Easier - Found Jul. 3, 2009
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... smoking ban in the city can take a breather at a tobacco cafe that recently opened in Tokyos Shimbashi district, becoming an oasis for smokers.
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Oasis album debut at number one in the UK and number five in the US, making 'Dig Out Your Soul' Oasis' first top 10 album in ten years. 'Oasis...
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Officials in Scotland are set to ban rock concerts at a sports stadium - after a recent Oasis show descended into violence.
Edinburgh Evening News - Found Jun. 27, 2009
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For the English rock band, see Oasis (band). For other uses, see Oasis (disambiguation).
In geography, an oasis (plural: oases) or cienega (southwestern United States) is an isolated area of vegetation in a desert, typically surrounding a spring or similar water source. Oases also provide habitat for animals and even humans if the area is big enough.
The location of oases has been of critical importance for trade and transportation routes in desert areas. Caravans must travel via oases so that supplies of water and food can be replenished. Thus, political or military control of an oasis has in many cases meant control of trade on a particular route. For example, the oases of Awjila, Ghadames and Kufra, situated in modern-day Libya, have at various times been vital to both North-South and East-West trade in the Sahara. The word oasis came into English via Greek ὄασις oasis, borrowed directly from Egyptian wḥ3t or Demotic wḥỉ. It was not borrowed from Coptic ouaḥe (*/waħe/), as is sometimes suggested; the Greek word is attested several centuries before Coptic existed as a written language.citation needed
Oases are formed from underground rivers or aquifers such as an artesian aquifer, where water can reach the surface naturally by pressure or by man made wells. Occasional brief thunderstorms provide subterranean water to sustain natural oases, such as the Tuat. Substrata of impermeable rock and stone can trap water and retain it in pockets; or on long faulting subsurface ridges or volcanic dikes water can collect and percolate to the surface. Any incidence of water is then used by migrating birds who also pass seeds with their droppings which will grow at the water's edge forming an oasis.
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People who live in an oasis use every bit of land. Water has to be used carefully; the fields must be irrigated to grow plants like dates, figs, olives, and apricots. The most important plant in an oasis is the date palm which forms the upper layer. These palm trees provide shade for smaller trees like peach trees, which form the middle layer. By growing plants in different layers, the farmers make best use of the soil and water. Many vegetables are also grown and some cereals, such as wheat, barley and millet are grown where there is more moisture. 1
Notable Oases
- Nile River valley and delta, Egypt, is claimed as the world's biggest oasis by the 2007 edition of The Guinness Book of World Records with a stated area of 22,000 square kilometres.
- Al-Hasa, Saudi Arabia
- Al-Qatif, Saudi Arabia, large oasis on the coast of the Persian Gulf.
- Azraq, Jordan
- Bahariya Oasis, Egypt
- Ein Gedi, Israel
- El Tour, Sinai peninsula,
- Farafra Oasis, Egypt
- Gaberoun, Libya
- Herðubreiðarlindir, a so-called oasis-like area in the frozen Highlands of Iceland
- Huacachina, Peru
- Kufra Oasis, Libya
- La Cienega, New Mexico, a paraje on El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro
- Las Vegas Valley, United States, what was once an oasis in the vast Mojave desert has over the years grown into a vibrant metropolitan area of over 2 million people, location of the famed Las Vegas Strip.
- Loulan, China
- M'Zab Valley, Algeria
- Marin, China
- Niya, China
- Ouargla, Algeria
- MS Oasis of the seas
- Safsaf Oasis, Egypt
- San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
- Siwa Oasis, Egypt
- Tabas, Iran
- Timimoun, Algeria
- Tozeur, Tunisia
- Tuat, Algeria
- Turfan, China
- Yarkand, China
- Zerzura, a mythical oasis in Egypt or Libya
- Palm Valley, Central Australia
See also
Bibliography
- (French) Battesti (Vincent), Jardins au désert, Evolution des pratiques et savoirs oasiens, Jérid tunisien, Paris, Éditions IRD, coll. À travers champs, 2005, 440 p. ISBN 2-7099-1564-2 Open Archives: book in free access / in French
References
External links
Media related to Oasis at Wikimedia Commons
The Wiktionary definition of oasis
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