Talk:Gabal El Uweinat

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Is it just me or does Jebel Uweinat and the large mountainous structure to the northwest look suspiciously like either a) volcanoes or b) impact craters? I'm leaning toward impact craters. Neither structure has either marking on Google Earth. I'm not a geologist, but I did take enough geology in college to have the thought and think maybe a serious geologist might want to look into this. I'll try to circulate this message. User:Cdogsimmons 01:56, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
 * the ring shape might well be a crater, compare the 'nearby' (300 km to the north) Kebira Crater. dab (&#5839;) 19:53, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

I read on a website that the structure is a dome, the top of which was shaved off. That's totally possible. Now my question is, was that the explaination for the structure before or after it became widely accepted that there were large impact craters on Earth? --Cdogsimmons 17:45, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
 * that's wild nonsense, of course, but it sounds like a cool desert story. Can you trace its origin? Is this local folklore, or merely interenet kookery? dab (&#5839;) 18:21, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Italians on the Jebel Uweinat § Vanni Beltrami
On 19-1-1931 an italian officer - lt Prada - came to the Jebel from Cufra, just conquered by the Italian Army. A few months later, Ardito Desio the well-known geologist visited the mountain as a representative of the Royal Italian Geographical Society. Again during 1931-32 the professor Ludovico di Caporiacco and cpt Marchesi prepared the complete map (1:100.000) of the area, climbed the Jebel and reached the peak: they were the second after the Bagnold-Cousteaud-Shaw expedition. Extendive explorations were carried out by Professor Monterin and Major O.Rolle in 1934. From the Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente. vanni.beltrami@fastwebnet.it