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  Gobi Desert   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Desert Schools The increase of human and livestock population in the desert has lead to deterioration in the ecosystem resulting in degradation of soil fertility.
Gobi Desert Gobi (pinyin ge1 bi4) is a desert in China north of the Himalayas.
Although most deserts are in basins with closed, or interior drainage, a few deserts are crossed by 'exotic' rivers that derive their water from outside the desert.
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 Asia
The earliest postulated expansion out of the steppe is that of the Indo-Europeans, who spread their languages into the Middle East, India, and in the Tocharians, to the borders of China.
The northernmost part of Asia, including much of Siberia, was largely inaccessible to the steppe nomads, owing to the dense forests, the climate, and the tundra.
The Caucasus and Himalaya mountains and the Karakum and Gobi deserts formed barriers that the steppe horsemen could cross only with difficulty.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/as/asia.html   (2480 words)

  
 The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Terrain
dominated by extension of Ethiopian north-south trending highlands, descending on the east to a coastal desert plain, on the northwest to hilly terrain and on the southwest to flat-to-rolling plains
vast semidesert and desert plains, grassy steppe, mountains in west and southwest; Gobi Desert in south-central
primarily semiarid and desert plateau; narrow coastal plain; mountains in west
www.brainyatlas.com /fields/2125.html   (2741 words)

  
 Top 20 Asia
The steppe region had long been inhabited by mounted nomads, and from the central steppes they could reach all areas of Asia.
The earliest known such central expansion out of the steppe is that of the Indo-Europeans, who spread their languages into the Middle East, India, and in the Tocharians to the borders of China.
The northern part of Asia, covering much of Siberia, was inaccessible to the steppe nomads, due to the dense forests and the tundra.
www.top20asia.com   (1708 words)

  
 Mongolia, Siberia's Southern Neighbor
andwiched between northern China and southern Siberia lies Mongolia, a land of mountains, steppe grasslands, deserts such as the famous Gobi, and covered with a great arch of blue sky.
Dinosaurs of the Gobi: this region of Mongolia is famous for the 80-million-year-old dinosaurs found there, and
Map of Mongolia: with mountains, rivers, cities and the Gobi Desert
www.workingdogweb.com /Mongolia.htm   (1080 words)

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