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Dasht-e Lut ((ペルシア語:دشت لوت), "Emptiness Desert"), also spelled Dasht-i-Lut and known as the Lut Desert, is a large salt desert in Kerman Province, Iran and is the world's 25th largest desert. The surface of the sand there has been measured at temperatures as high as 70.7 °C (159 °F), and it is one of the world's driest and hottest places. ==Description== Iran is climatically part of the Afro-Asian belt of deserts, which stretches from the Cape Verde islands off West Africa all the way to Mongolia near Beijing, China. The patchy, elongated, light-colored feature in the foreground (parallel to the mountain range) is the northernmost of the Dasht dry lakes that stretch southward . In near-tropical deserts, elevated areas capture most precipitation. As a result, the desert is largely an abiotic zone. Iran's geography consists of a plateau surrounded by mountains and divided into drainage basins. Dasht-e Lut is one of the largest of these desert basins, long and wide,〔 〕 and is considered to be one of the driest places on Earth.〔(Satellites seek global hot spots / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com )〕〔(Temperature of Earth )〕〔(Images of the Day - Images - redOrbit )〕 Area of the desert is about .〔 〕 The other large basin is the Dasht-e Kavir. During the spring wet season, water briefly flows down from the Kerman mountains, but it soon dries up, leaving behind only rocks, sand, and salt. The eastern part of Dasht-e Lut is a low plateau covered with salt flats. In contrast, the center has been sculpted by the wind into a series of parallel ridges and furrows, extending over and reaching in height.〔 This area is also riddled with ravines and sinkholes. The southeast is a vast expanse of sand, like a Saharan erg, with dunes high, among the tallest in the world.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dasht-e Lut」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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