Author: Babagana Abubakar - Title: Marine Dust from the Sahara Desert in Africa

E-mail: babaganabubakar2002@yahoo.com Tel: +2348062220179 Skype: babagana.abubakar Title: Marine Dust from the Sahara Desert in Africa Nourishing the Mighty Amazon Rainforest of South America Introduction: The Bodélé Depression which is also known as the Bodele, is located at the southern edge of the Sahara Desert in the republic of Chad and it is the lowest point in Chad. [...] Fig.1: Showing a World map with the location of the republic of Chad: 1 mailto:babaganabubakar2002@yahoo.com Fig.2: An imagery indicating the position of Bodele in red coloure: The Republic of Chad located at 15.4542° N, 18.7322° E is a large landlocked country in the heart of the Sahara desert region of Africa between. [...] The same principles applies with the Bodele depression when Wind sweeps the dust between the Tibesti and the Ennedi Mountains in Northern Chad which is channel across the depression resulting in Dust storm graduating in to jet stream and subsequently getting settle on the Amazon rainforest of South America. [...] Diatoms from these fresh water lakes, once part of the Mega-Lake Chad, now make up the surface of the depression and are the source material for the dust, which, carried across the Atlantic Ocean and rains over the great Amazon rainforest which is also known as the Amazon Jungle in South America which has an Area of 5,500,000 km2 (2,123,562 mi2). [...] But the Bodele portion of this Lake Mega-Chad dried up over the last 10,000 years to form the present day dry dusty lands of the Bodele made up very rich marine sediments and its located in the heart of a very dry and very unviable desert in Africa called the Sahara Desert ,but yet keeps fertilizing the very viable Amazon rainforest in South America with phosphorus from the biogenic sources (such.