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	Kunlun Mountains - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A southern branch of the Kunlun Mountains forms the watershed between the catchment basins of China's two longest rivers, the Yangtze River and the Huang He.
		The mountain range formed at the northern edges of the Indian Plate during its collision, in the late Triassic, with the Eurasian Plate, which resulted in the closing of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean.
		The Kunlun mountains are well known in Chinese mythology and are believed to be Taoist paradise.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kunlun_Mountains (284 words)

	Geography of China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The eastern half of the country, its seacoast fringed with offshore islands, is a region of fertile lowlands, foothills and mountains, desert, steppes, and subtropical areas.
		The Qin Ling mountain range, a continuation of the Kunlun Mountains, divides the North China Plain from the Chang Jiang Delta and is the major physiographic boundary between the two great parts of China Proper.
		Southeast of the mountains lies a coastal, hilly region of small deltas and narrow valley plains; the drainage area of the Zhu Jiang (Pearl River) and its associated network of rivers occupies much of the region to the south.
	www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Geography_of_China (2173 words)

	Kunlun Mountains -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		The Kunlun Mountains form the northern wing of the Plateau of Tibet, which is part of the highest region in the world.
		The Min Mountains are a branch of the Kunlun Mountains and have a roughly northwest to southeast axis.
		Branching off from the Kunlun Mountains, the range runs from southwest to northeast to form the boundary between the Tarim Basin to the north and the minor basin of Lake A-ya-k'o-k'u-mu and the Tsaidam Basin areas of interior drainage to the south.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9275336?tocId=9275336 (906 words)

	Mountains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the western group, the Greater Hinggan Mountains lie between the Inner Mongolia Plateau and the Northeast Plain; the Taihang Mountains between the Loess Plateau and the North China Plain; the Wushan Mountains on the Sichuan-Hubei border; and the Xuefeng Mountains in western Hunan Province.
		In the middle group, the Changbai Mountains are east of the Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces and the Wuyi Mountains are on the Fujian-Jiangxi border.
		The Yinshan Mountains run west-east in the middle of Inner Mongolia composed of the Langshan and Ula mountains in the west; the Daqing and Huitengliang mountains in the middle; the Liangcheng and Huashan mountain sin the south; and the Damaqun Mountains in the east.
	www.china.org.cn /english/travel/40493.htm (1969 words)

	China
		Three of these, the Tien Shan, Kunlun mountains, and Qin Ling, date from an episode of Paleozoic mountain building (orogeny) that began late in the Carboniferous period and ended in the Permian period, when all of the world's landmasses had drawn together to form a single supercontinent, Pangaea (see Geology: The Geologic Time Scale).
		Mountains occupy about 43 percent of China's land surface; mountainous plateaus account for another 26 percent; and basins, predominantly hilly in terrain and located mainly in arid regions, cover approximately 19 percent of the area.
		The uplands are hilly to mountainous, with numerous broad valleys and gentle slopes.
	www.ovayonda.ws /lodging/country/cn.html (2583 words)

	China's Geography - Terrain
		This region is punctuated by hills and mountains and valleys that lie between the eastern lowlands and the Tibetan Plateau in the west.
		Northeast of Nanchang is Lake Poyang, fed by the Yuan River and runoff from the Chiuling Mountains to the west.
		The Sichuan Basin is located in central China, bounded by the Chin Ling Mountains to the north, the Chiunglai and Taliang Mountains to the west, and by the Yangtze River Basin to the south.
	www.koreanhistoryproject.org /Jta/Ch/ChGEO1.htm (1056 words)

	Kunlun Mountains - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The mountain range formed at the northern edges of the Indian Plate during its collision, in the late Triassic, with the Eurasian Plate, which resulted in the closing of the.
		The first to visit this paradise was, according to the legends, (1001-947 BCE) of the Zhou Dynasty.
		He supposedly discovered there the Jade Palace of Huang-Di, the mythical Yellow Emperor, and met, the Royal Mother of the West, who also had her mythical abode in these mountains.
	www.kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Kunlun_Mountains (310 words)

	Kunlun Mountains -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It stretches along the southern edge what is now called the (Click link for more info and facts about Tarim Basin) Tarim Basin, the infamous (Click link for more info and facts about Takla Makan) Takla Makan or "sand-buried houses" desert, and the (A desert in central Asia) Gobi desert.
		The Kunlun mountains are well known in (Click link for more info and facts about Chinese mythology) Chinese mythology and are believed to be (An adherent of any branch of Taoism) Taoist ((Christianity) the abode of righteous souls after death) paradise.
		The first to visit this paradise was, according to the legends, King Mu (1001-947 BCE) of the (The imperial dynasty of China from 1122 to 221 BC; notable for the rise of Confucianism and Taoism) Zhou Dynasty.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/ku/kunlun_mountains.htm (251 words)

	Kongur Peak
		As a high peak on the west Kunlun Mountains, Kongur Feng is pyramid-shaped and precipitous with an average slope of 45'.
		With its dangerous and perceptions terrain, the Kongur Mountains area averages 7000 meters in height and has a modern snow line of some 5900 meters and is thus well-developed in size and the land form of the glaciers.
		Noted for the capricious weather, the mountains may encounter the wind and snow occurring simultaneously even in summer and the temperature may drop -20 C in a wink.
	www.muztagh.com /climbing/kongur-peak.htm (648 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- North Tibetan Plateau-Kunlun Mountains alpine desert (PA1011)
		The alpine deserts of northern Tibet include the lofty plateau that lies between the Karakoram and Kunlun mountain regions and extends eastward along the northern margin of the plateau.
		The Kunlun, a prominent mountain range of Central Asia, extends 2,500 km from east to west, connecting western Sichuan with the Pamir Range and forming the northern rim of the Tibetan Plateau.
		This ecoregion is comparable to the Kunlun Mountains biogeographic subunit in the Tibetan Plateau according to Mackinnon et al.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/pa/pa1011_full.html (1399 words)

	Chinese Porcelain History
		In the west China claimed portions of the 41,000-square-kilometer Pamir Mountains area, a region of soaring mountain peaks and glacial valleys where the borders of Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Soviet Union, and China meet in Central Asia north and east of this region.
		A continental scarp marks the eastern margin of this territory extending from the Greater Hinggan Range in northeastern China, through the Taihang Shan (a range of mountains overlooking the North China Plain) to the eastern edge of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in the south.
		South of the Qin Ling divide are the densely populated and highly developed areas of the lower and middle plains of the Chang Jiang and, on its upper reaches, the Sichuan Basin, an area encircled by a high barrier of mountain ranges.
	www.gotheborg.com /chronology/landandpeople.shtml (2351 words)

	CruelChin: Kunlun Mountains, Climate
		The Kunluns are almost totally isolated from the climatic influence of the Indian and Pacific Ocean monsoons.
		Instead, they are under the constant influence of the continental air mass, which causes great annual and diurnal temperature fluctuations.
		Maximum aridity occurs in the middle segment of the mountain system; to the west and east, however, the climate is
	cruelchin.blogspot.com /2004/04/kunlun-mountains-climate.html (66 words)

	Chapter 7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Several large herds of at least 95, 32 and 131 animals were observed in April 1997 in the high mountains of Gouli, in the Kunlun Mountains of southeast Dulan.
		Although the legs, face, and hump are dark, the rest of the coat may range from pale brown to such a light tan that the animals appear almost white at a distance.
		It is only in remote and sparsely populated regions of Qinghai, such as the Kunlun Mountains in Dulan, the vast open plains of Maduo, and the Kekexili region (e.g., in Suojia and along the Golmud-Lhasa highway) that a greater variety and more abundant wildlife populations can still be seen.
	www.plateauperspectives.org /foggin2000/dissertation/chapter_7.htm (5761 words)

	Worldisround - Travelling the QinghaiTibetan Highway - Qinghai Province photos
		Kunlun Quan is a natural spring whose waters refreshed Princess..
		This cleft in the Kunlun cliffside was caused by earthquake and earth movements.
		Descending the Kunlun Mountains we are caught in an epic jam on the...
	www.worldisround.com /articles/45177 (461 words)

	THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HIGH MOUNTAIN GLACIATION AND DESERT EVOLUTION ON THE NORTHERN SLOPE OF KUNLUN MOUNTAINS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In order to examine the relationship between environmental change and landscape evolution in mountains and desert margins on the northern slope of the Kunlun Mountains we made field investigation along Keriya River, that traverse the Kunlun Mountains and Taklamakan Desert.
		We are in the opinion that these fans probably formed as a response to increased meltwaters and sediment loads associated with activities of glaciers in the Kunlun mountains during the last glacial.
		The Late Quaternary Glaciation of Tibet and the Bordering Mountains: Implications for Understanding and Reconstructing the Evolution of the Mountains, Deserts, Hydrology, Vegetation and Early Humans in Central Asia
	gsa.confex.com /gsa/inqu/finalprogram/abstract_53380.htm (406 words)

	Kunlun Mountains - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kunlun Mountains - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Kunlun mountain range (Kunlun Shan, 崑崙山) is one of the longest mountain chains in Asia, extending more than 3000 km.
		The article about Kunlun Mountains contains information related to Kunlun Mountains and Mythology.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Kunlun_Mountain (298 words)

	THE TIMING OF THE OLDEST GLACIATIONS IN THE MOUNTAINS OF THE QINGHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The results show that the oldest glaciation, the Zhonglianggan Glaciation, in the Qilian Mountains, occurred at about 462.9ka BP (Zhou Shangzhe et al, 2002), and the high Wangfeng glaciation, the oldest one in the Tianshan Mountains, was dated at 477.1 and 459.7 ka BP (Zhou Shangzhe 2002).
		The oldest glaciation in the Hengduan mountains, the Daocheng Glaciation, which is characterized by moraines with deeply weathered red soils having a SiO2/Al2O3 ratio of about 2.42 and a SiO2 /R2O3 ratio of about 2.35, was dated 571.2ka BP.
		The Wangkun glaciation, the oldest in the Kunlun Mountains, was dated 710ka BP by Cui Zhijiu (1995) using ESR.
	gsa.confex.com /gsa/inqu/finalprogram/abstract_54962.htm (472 words)

	ECLOGITES IN THE ALTUN MOUNTAINS, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Altun Mountains are bounded by the Altyn Tagh fault, a major tectonic feature in northwest.
		The occurrence and P-T estimate of the Altun eclogites are similar to those of the recently documented high-pressure eclogite and garnet-peridotite belt in the North Qaidam Mountains across the Altyn Tagh fault.
		If so, the Altun Mountains were displaced about 450-500 km from the North Qaidam-Qilian Mountains by the Altyn Tagh fault in a left-lateral sense.
	pangea.stanford.edu /~chu/chumsthe.html (239 words)

	Seismo-Watch, Special Earthquake Report, China M7.9 earthquake, Nov. 14, 2001
		A Chinese newspaper, Xinhua/Sohu.com, has published a picture indicating that substantial surface fault ruptures had occurred along the Kunlun mountains where the earthquake occurred.
		While looking at the photo enlargements, notice the man in the foreground and the group of people in the background for scale.
		Several landslides were reported in the Kunlun mountains but did not cause any causalities.
	www.seismo-watch.com /EQS/AB/2001/011114.China.M7.9/011114.China.P1.html (476 words)

	SCICHINA Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		the arc volcanic sequences in the northern side of the Central Fault of the East Kunlun were metamorphosed progressively from upper greenschist facies in the south to epidote-amphibolite facies in the north.
		High-angle thrust deformation was developed synchronously with the peak metamor-phim and superimposed with later low-angle striking-slip deformation.
		These results precisely constrain the timing of the closure of early Paleozoic volcanic basin (Proto-Tethys) over the eastern portion of the East Kunlun Orogen, and the thrust tectonic slice had a cool rate of ca.
	www.scienceinchina.com /ky/0213/ky1130.stm (191 words)

	Mountains
		The more famous mountain ranges in China are the Himalayas, The Kun Lun Mountains, The Tianshan Mountains, The Qilian Mountains, the Greater Hinggan Mountains, The Taihang Mountains, and the Hengduan Mountains.
		The KunLun Mountains extends 2,500 km from the Pamiers Plateau in the west to the northwest of Sichaun Province, with an average elevation of 5,000 to 7,000 meters.
		Shaolin Temple is located in the Songshan Mountains eight miles from Dengfeng and about 50 miles southwest of Zhengzhou the capital of Henan Province.
	www.kunlunpai.com /kun_lun.htm (161 words)

	Beijing Kunlun Hotel China Hotels Beijing Hotels - Discount China Hotel Reservation Network and Global Hotel ...
		The Beijing Kunlun Hotel is nestled near the Kunlun Mountains, a great mountain system which stretches across the roof of the world, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
		According to a famous fairy tale, it is "God's mountain and the capital of God's domain".
		The Beijing Kunlun Hotel is located on the banks of the beautiful Liangma River, a location famous for its embassies, foreign companies, exhibition centers, shopping centers and deluxe hotels.
	www.sinohotel.com /beijing/kunlun/index.html (346 words)

	everest base camp trek, everest base camp trek from tibet, everest from tibet, everest trek from tibet, ebc from tibet, ...
		For many centuries Tibet remained for westerners a mysterious and forbidden land cut off from the rest of the world by the mighty Himalayas in the south and the Kunlun Mountains to the north.
		Those that did returned with stories of an exotic and intriguing land of monastic cities and mountain passes, where nomads grazed huge herds of yaks, hermit monks spent years in meditation and pilgrims prostrated themselves over vast distances to achieve their religious goals.
		Carrying on over highland passes and through some of the most stunning mountain vistas in the world we eventually cross the Himalayas and begin our descent down through cultivated foothills and back to the Kathmandu valley.
	www.nepaltreks.biz /tibet_tour2.html (528 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- North Tibetan Plateau-Kunlun Mountains alpine desert (PA1011) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		If you were trying to pick one of the toughest places in the world to live, you might consider the Northern Tibetan Plateau-Kunlun Mountains Alpine Desert ecoregion of Central Asia.
		The alpine deserts of this ecoregion extend across a plateau between two mountain regions: the Karakoram and the Kunlun.
		To get some idea of how remote the Kunlun region is, consider that it looks southward into the highest and least-populated part of the Tibetan Plateau.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/pa/pa1011.html (365 words)

	MSN Encarta - Kunlun Mountains
		Kunlun Mountains, also Kunlun Shan or K’un-lun Shan, major mountain system, western China.
		The mountains rise to 7,723 m (25,338 ft) atop Muztag...
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	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761559869/Kunlun_Mountains.html (77 words)

	Traffic Jam on Qinghai-Tibet Highway Relieved (May 4, 2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Traffic flow at the pass of Kunlun Mountains, at an altitude of over 4,000 meters, on the Qinghai-Tibet highway has resumed.
		Several truck drivers told Xinhua at 22:30 Monday at the checkpoint in Golmud, the terminal of the Qinghai-Tibet highway, that they had just come down from the mountain pass and traffic there was restored with the help from two railway policemen but several hundred vehicles were still waiting to pass.
		Over one thousand vehicles have jammed parts of the Qinghai-Tibet highway since around 10: am Monday due to three traffic accidents at the pass of the Dangla Mountains, Fenghuoshan, an hour drive northward away from the Dangla Mountains pass, and the pass of Kunlun Mountains.
	www.chinaplanner.com /update/050404.htm (209 words)

	Mustagata and Kongur Shan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In July of 2002 a team of highly qualified snowboarders, telemark skiers and ski mountaineers will make a journey to the Kunlun Shan Mountains in the Xinjiang Province of Western China.
		Eventually they will arrive at the base of "the Father of Ice Mountains" the 7,546m (24,757-ft) Muztaghata.
		The peak has three great summits After acclimatizing for a two weeks making successively higher snowboard and ski descents the team will go for the North summit of Mustagata and attempt a new line of descent from the great peak.
	www.seracfilms.com /mustagata.htm (207 words)

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