Aisha Mountains - Aishasanchi

Japanese: アイシャ山地 - あいしゃさんち
Aisha Mountains - Aishasanchi

…The Afar Depression is the ocean floor that was formed when the Arabian Peninsula separated from Africa. It is part of the Red Sea and is an area where seafloor spreading is still occurring. The Danakil and Aisha Mountains, which border the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, rose up, and the area has been dried up since tens of thousands of years ago and is now part of Africa. One piece of evidence that the area was once under the sea is that most of the lowland is covered with a layer of rock salt, gypsum, etc. more than 900 meters thick, which is thought to have been deposited by the evaporation of seawater. …

*Some of the terminology used to refer to the "Aisha Mountains" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…アファル低地はアラビア半島がアフリカから分離してできた海底で,紅海の一部であり,今なお海底拡大が起こっている地域である。紅海やアデン湾に接するダナキル山地とアイシャ山地が隆起したために,数万年前以来干上がってアフリカの一部となっている。低地の大部分が岩塩やセッコウなど,海水の蒸発によって堆積したとされる厚さ900m以上の層で覆われているのも,かつて海底にあった証拠の一つである。…

※「アイシャ山地」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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