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Answer: d. The world's largest continuous sand sea,
The Empty Quarter
covers
about one-fifth of the Arabian Peninsula (and one of the planet's richest oil re-
serves). On the border between
Oman
and
Saudi Arabia
, towering reddish-brown
dunes weave around milky salt flats known as sabhkas, remnants of ancient lakes
and ponds.
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