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	Kunlun Mountains - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Arka Tagh is in the centre of the Kunlun Shan with Ulugh Muztagh (6973 m).
		The highest mountain of the Kunlun Shan is the so-called "Kunlun Goddess" (7167) in the Keriya area.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kunlun_Mountains (349 words)

	Ari's Base Camp - Mountains/Asia
		Kunlun Shan (or Kunlun/Kun-Lun) is a major mountain system of Asia, located along the north edge of the vast dry Tibetan plains in China about halfway between the Himalayas in the south and Tien Shan in the north.
		The range is naturally bordered by Kyzyl-Su and Surkhob river valleys in the north, Sarykol ridge on the border between China and Tajikistan in the east, Pamir and Pyandzh rivers in the south and Pyandzh river and Western spurs of the Darvaz and Peter the First ridges on the west.
		On the West Pamir borders on Hindu Kush, on the south on Karakoram and Himalaya and on the east of Pamier lies Kunlun Shan and on the North-East Tien Shan.
	ari.rdx.net /abc/mountains/asia.htm (9289 words)

	EnergeticArts.Org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		According to tradition a Daoist Monk named Dao An lived in the Kunlun Mountain range during the Jin Dynasty, on this mountain range which was a spiritual retreat for wandering monks which had many wild birds.
		Kunlun Shan Qigong is unlike many systems of Qigong taught today it doesn't utilize Martial Arts as its efficacy for practice.
		Kunlun Qigong is for the practitioner who likes variety in their practice, a great alternative to Traditional Yoga, Tai Chi & Karate systems.
	www.energeticarts.org /Kulun.shtml (735 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- North Tibetan Plateau-Kunlun Mountains alpine desert (PA1011)
		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.
		Because the Kunlun and adjacent regions of Tibet have been uplifted recently (3,000 m in the past two million years), the high alpine environments here are geologically young and lack species that are deeply endemic.
		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)

	Social Studies In Action: China Through Mapping
		Ranging from 20 to 50 feet in height and stretching for 1,500 miles, the earth and stone wall is located along the Mongolian Plateau in northern China.
		The Kunlun Mountains are north and east of the Himalayas.
		The Kunlun range is one of the highest in the world.
	www.learner.org /channel/libraries/socialstudies/k_2/norton/background.html (647 words)

	UC Davis Geology: AGU Meeting Abstracts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		First, the range coincides with a major tectonic boundary: the Taaxi-Qiaoertianshan-Hongshanhu (TQH) suture between the Qiangtang block to the south and the Songpan-Ganzi subduction-accretion complex to the north.
		In the Loqzung range, the TQH suture juxtaposes Jurassic mélange and late Paleozoic diamictites of Gondwanian affinity to the south against Carboniferous strata to the north that have previously been reported to show Cathaysian affinity.
		Specifically, the structural style in the SE portion of the range is characterized by tightly folded Cretaceous deposits whereas to the NW these units are deformed by broad, upright folds.
	www-geology.ucdavis.edu /pubs/agu04/raterman_04.html (531 words)

	THE UIGHURS OF THE XINJIANG UYGHUR AUTONOMOUS REGION OF CHINA
		On the northern Mongolian border, Xinjiang is bordered by the Altai mountain range.
		On the southern Tibetan border, it is bounded by the Kunlun range.
		South of the Tianshan Range are the Taklamakan Desert and the Tarim Basin with is largely an unpopulated wasteland (Major, 1989).
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/6807/UIGHUR.html (2098 words)

	t32e in fm99
		The Kunlun Shan is characterized by a resistive crust that is bounded by sediment filled basins on both the north and south.
		Results of geologic mapping along the Min Shan, a north-trending mountain range that delineates the topographic margin of the plateau for 200km north of the Sichuan Basin, indicate that rates of vertical deformation far exceed that attributable to horizontal shortening.
		Extrapolating to the surface, a $^{10}$Be age of 106.6$\pm$21.4 ka is obtained; the discrepancy between the surface sample ages and the extrapolated age can be explained by an $\sim$20 cm mixed zone at the surface, in agreement with the measured thickness of the sand/loess layers on T2 and T3.
	www.agu.org /cgi-bin/SFgate/SFgate?&listenv=table&multiple=1&range=1&directget=1&application=fm99&database=/data/epubs/wais/indexes/fm99/fm99&maxhits=200&="T32E" (4467 words)

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		It is located in Nepal, in the northernmost range of the Himalayas, which is the loftiest and is known as the Great Himalayas or the Himadari.
		The southern most ranges of the Himalayas is known as Outer Himalayas or the Shiwalik ranges.
		By and large, the phenomenon of the monsoons is confined to the tropical lands lying between 20° N and 20°S. But in the Indian subcontinent it is greatly influenced by the Himalayan range bringing the whole subcontinent under the sway of these moist equatorial winds for the season ranging between two to five months.
	www.classteacher.com /student/exambooster/concepts/geo10.html (3697 words)

	Late Cenozoic geological evolution of the foreland basin bordering the West Kunlun range in Pulu area: Constraints on ...
		With an average elevation of 5000 m the West Kunlun range marks northwestern margin of the Tibetan Plateau and formed as an orogen in response to the collision of India and Asia 50 Ma ago.
		The cooling event was coeval with the north-verging thrusting along the northern boundary fault and the associated foreland basin deposition, suggesting that the West Kunlun range once underwent significant tectonic uplift in the Neogene.
		In contrast to the underlying Tertiary foreland basin strata, the Xiyu conglomerate thins toward the West Kunlun range and contains granite pebbles of cooling ages of 93, 18, and 12 Ma.
	www.agu.org /pubs/crossref/2003/2002JB001877.shtml (470 words)

	SummitPost - Kingata Tagh, ("Father of Clouds") -- Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This group of mountains is the Westernmost of the Kunlun Shan, Stretching from the famous Karakoram Higway in the South to the China-Tadjikstan border in the Northwest.
		Although most of the ranges that can be found there have something to do, in their formation processes, with the collision of the Indian subcontinent with Eurasia, the timespan in which this happened and the details of the geological processes that led to the uplifting differ a lot.
		The two remaining ranges of Central Asia, the Altay and the Tien Shan are found much more to the North and the processes that led to their formation are highly different to what was discussed here and their birth and evolution is a bit outside of what is of importance over here.
	www.summitpost.org /mountain/rock/153445/kingata-tagh-father-of-clouds.html (9063 words)

	Geological Society of America - Highlights from GSA Bulletin
		The eastern edge of Basin and Range extension in Eastern Oregon and western Idaho occurs at the edge of the Idaho batholith.
		We infer that the sediments within the basin were not shed from the surrounding mountains but from the West Kunlun range, transported by a 2000-km-long longitudinal river along the Altyn Tagh strike-slip fault.
		Ranges in the Rocky Mountains are sliced by streams forming steep gorges like the Black Canyon of the Gunnison and the Royal Gorge.
	www.geosociety.org /news/pr/06-05.htm (2465 words)

	April GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY media highlights
		Carboniferous-Triassic subduction and accretion in the western Kunlun, China: Implications for the collisional and accretionary tectonics of the northern Tibetan Plateau.
		The western Kunlun mountain range in Southwest China provides new and important information on the tectonic evolution of the northwestern margin of the Tibetan plateau.
		The region is still volcanically active; basaltic volcanism has occurred in the last 10 million years in the area and eight alkali basalt volcanoes ranging in age from approximately 1 million to 80,000 years have erupted within 50 km of the proposed repository.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2002-04/gsoa-aga040502.php (4219 words)

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		The miles-high terrain of the Kunlun Range seemed no place for a railroad, yet the Chinese government forged ahead with plans for a route to the furthest reaches of Tibet.
		There were signs of landslides too, both on the slopes and back on the road, where subsidence caused by melting foundations had brought down bridges and cracked and potted several stretches of the road.
		Near Kunlun Pass is a monument marking the huge earthquake that struck the area four years ago.
	yaleglobal.yale.edu /article.print?id=6288 (4800 words)

	Chinese Literature - Shuijingzhu æ°´ç¶“æ³¨ (www.chinaknowledge.de)
		According to the ShanhaijingÂ ("Classic of Mountains and Seas"), the distance from the Kunlun to the Jishi Mountain is 1,740 leagues, and from the place where the river comes from Mt. Jishi in Longxi Commandery down to River Luo in the plain land, more than 5,000 leagues are measured.
		The way to Mount Kunlun is far and difficult, the reports are confuse and accidently; there are only few waterways and streets, and even these few run in different places; only few people have seen or even heard from these places, and nobody has made further investigations.
		Commentary: The Shanhaijng says, the Kunlun Range is in the northwest, and the Yellow River comes from the northeastern corner of it.
	www.chinaknowledge.de /Literature/Science/shuijingzhu.html (1340 words)

	Geography / About Uyghurs / UAA - Uyghur American Association (UAA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The East Turkistan comprises two basins, Tarim Basin and Jungghar Basin, and three mountain ranges, Altay Mountain range, Tangri Mountain range and Kunlun mountain range.
		The Kunlun is located at the southern and southwestern borders, runs from west to east.
		Kunlun mountains claims some of the world's highest peaks, most of which are covered with snow.
	www.uyghuramerican.org /index.php/uaa/about_uyghurs/geography (971 words)

	Outside Kashgar, Picnic in the Kunlun Mountain Range-8/20/01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Outside Kashgar, Picnic in the Kunlun Mountain Range-8/20/01
		Another view of the over 7000 meter Mt. Kunlun.
		We had our picnic of local fruit and bread by a river near the the road.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~damell/programs/cfsp2001/sr5.html (66 words)

	Unnamed-Unclimbed.com
		A decision was made to leave the laptop behind, so while there will be no live coverage with photos and video, we will be sending text messages from our Iridium satellite phone for coverage on Everestnews.
		The Chang Tang area of the Kunlun Range was recently described in National Geographic Magazine:
		It is with this intrepid spirit of adventure and respect that the Kunlun 2004 expedition is being planned.
	www.unnamed-unclimbed.com /kunlun (374 words)

	rediff.com: Colonel Anil Athale (retd) on Sino-India relations in the new millennium
		Aksaichin lies beyond the Karakoram range and rests on the Kunlun mountain range.
		The origin of the Indian border being placed on the Kunlun mountains (and not the revered Himalayas as popularly imagined) goes back to the early 19th century.
		At that time the Russians were expanding eastward and the British, afraid of their threat to India, decided to put a wedge between Central Asia and Tibet by laying claims to the Aksaichin area.
	www.rediff.com /news/2001/jan/12guest.htm (707 words)

	Martin Adserballe's Adventure Page
		The absurd flat pass itself was 5604 meters and in the proximity of the snowline with a low, but still spectacular mountain range on our left partly enclosed by a massive ice-cap stretching some 100 km to the west.
		The 600 meters descend along the source of upper Keriya river took us to the steep 5513 meter Atotam pass, the north side descend marking the starting point of a some 70 km muddy disintegrated gravel road constructed by Kunmindang warprisners in the late 60s during the intense hunt for Uranium in Tibet.
		Marching over the 5022 meters Topolato pass opened up a 50 km long and 20 km wide desert steppe plateau in the middle of the Kunlun range called Achik Kul basin marked with two salt lakes in the centre at 4520 meters.
	www.adserballe.com /tibet2002.htm (1533 words)

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		It is bordered by China on the east and by Afghanistan on the south and west and is separated from Pakistan and Azad Kashmir by a narrow strip of Afghan territory.
		The Pamir mountain area centres on the nodal orogenic uplift known as the Pamir Knot, from which several south-central Asian mountain ranges radiate; these include the Hindu Kush, the Karakoram Range, the Kunlun Mountains, and the Tien Shan.
		Deep river valleys mark the boundaries of the Pamirs in the north beyond the ridges of the Trans-Alay Range, and the Vakhan region (Wakhan Corridor) of Afghanistan defines the southern extent.
	www.badakhshan.20m.com (708 words)

	Autonomous province Tibet
		The unconfortable aspects of this trip will be compensated by some beautiful scenery along the road.
		First you can enjoy the Kunlun Shan range near Golmud, before the street rises up to 5000 meters abouve sea level to enter the indescribtable landscape of the tibetan high plateau.
		This part of the "friendship highway" leads along the northern slope of the Himalaya range.
	n.ethz.ch /student/bstump/travel/countries/tibet (505 words)

	cenozoicgeology
		Active crustal shortening however occurs prodominantly along and the north of Kunlun range.
		Long-term slip rates measured along the active left-lateral Kunlun fault located at the northern margin of the plateau indicate uniform slip rate of 12 mm/yr which is also consistent with the amount of shortening in this region (Van der Woerd et al.
		The most recent volcanism which occurred in the past 20 Ma, is distributed south of Kunlun range (Arnaud et al.
	www.geo.arizona.edu /~ozacar/tecton~1.htm (404 words)

	Tales of Old China
		The northern boundary of Sinkiang touches Siberia, and on the west it is divided from India by the Himalayan Range and the mountains of Tibet.
		China proper is a land of high mountain ranges, of mighty rivers and of vast plains, but her outlying dependencies of Sinkiang and Mongolia contain the widest desert area on the face of the earth.
		The peaks which stand out from the Himalayan range are as high as 24,600 feet, and the passes through the mountains rise to 19,000 feet.
	www.talesofoldchina.com /library/herlife.cfm (21255 words)

	EarthRef.org Reference Database (ERR) -- Avouac & Peltzer 1993
		The northern piedmont of the western Kunlun mountains (Xinjiang, China) is marked at its easternmost extremity, south of the Hotan-Qira oases, by a set of normal faults trending N50E for nearly 70 km.
		Observation of glacial and periglacial geomorphic features along the northern front of the western Kunlun range indicates that the Qira glaciofluvial fan emplaced after the last glacial maximum during the retreat of the Kunlun glaciers (12--22 ka).
		The age of the most developed inset terrace in uplifted valleys is inferred to be 10±3 ka, coeval with humid climate pulses of the last deglacitation.
	earthref.org /cgi-bin/err.cgi?n=39550 (444 words)

	Kunlun Shan Mountain Range - Tibet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Kunlun Shan is a major mountain system of Asia, situated in China about halfway between the Himalayas and Tian Shan.
		It stretches one thousand miles, its snow-and-glacier-clad peaks rising abruptly along the north edge of the vast dry Tibetan plains.
		The Kunlun Shan becomes progressively more narrow from east to west, and the narrow western section, just east of the Pamirs, is where the highest peaks are found, towering seventy five miles south of Kashi, the largest city in western Xinjiang Province, China.
	www.volcanolive.com /kunlun3.html (119 words)

	SummitPost - Kezi Sel -- Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering
		But being accessible, standing on the outskirts of the southern branch of the Kongur Shan range, it is indeed an interesting objective.
		Being a little brother of big Kongur, it does not draw much attention from climbers, it would have been an objective for acclimatisation climbing of groups trying to scale Kongur Tagh, were it not that some even easier to acces, lower and equally not to technical peaks are found even closer to base camp.
		First climbers to come to the region was a massive Soviet/Chinese party in 1956, but as usual with first visits of a region they paid attention mainly to the highest summits of the area.
	www.summitpost.org /mountain/rock/151998/kezi-sel.html (2098 words)

	Fall AGU96 poster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The residuals for our data set vary in the range -19 - + 13 seconds, with the mean value which is close to 0 (0.08 s), median value = 0.5 s, and RMS = 4.9 s.
		A travel time difference of observed phases with respect to lateral heterogeneous model can be explained as a combined effect of Earth inhomogeneity, anisotropy, cross-correlation errors of estimation, and mislocations of events.
		Hence, the difference of 15 seconds among the residuals in the observed cluster can be associated with not 13%, but only 6-7% of the velocity perturbation with negative residuals mapping the structure beneath the Tibetan Plateau to the south -east of Kunlun fault, and positive residuals mapping to the north-west of Kunlun fault.
	gretchen.geo.rpi.edu /ilya/agu96/agu96.htm (2120 words)

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