Located in the North-West of the Libyan republic, it extends on three hundred kilometers from west to east. Majority of this plateau is covered by calcareous stones and a little grass grows in depressions. Oued in Hammada al Hamra To drive up the Hammada Plateau you must use tracks which follow the beds of the wadis. In fact generally there is water but only at few meters under the surface of the ground.
Some trees survive, if their roots are enough long.
More than 400 meteorites from many different old falls were found, especially on its Eastern part. It's rather difficult to prospect here, the eyes are the first tool we need for a visual survey of the ground, but with all these stones around, it's hard to discern a black and unusual one. On this part of the Hammada the rate of meteorites find is just one per 200 square kilometers. The potential places for a hunting successfully are rare and they require much time to be correctly prospected. There is example in history of regmaglypts which were read as divine signals, they were thought to represent the face of the goddess herself, and the meteorite was consequently used as the head of the cult statue.