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	Gobi Desert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Tian Shan range separates the Junggar Basin semi-desert from the Taklamakan desert, which is a low, sandy desert basin surrounded by the high mountain ranges of the Tibetan Plateau to the south and the Pamirs to the west.
		The Yulduz valley or valley of the Khaidyk-gol (43° N 83°-86° E) is enclosed by two prominent members of the Tian Shan mountain range, namely the Chol-tagh and the Kuruk-tagh [ridges?], running parallel and close to one another.
		In the eastern basin drift-sand is encountered between the district of Ude in the north (44° 30'north) and the foot of the In-shan in the south.
	en.wikipedia.org /?title=Gobi_Desert (3315 words)

	Kunlun Mountains - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The highest mountain of the Kunlun Shan is the Kunlun Goddess (7,167 m) in the Keriya area.
		The Arka Tagh is in the centre of the Kunlun Shan; its highest point is Ulugh Muztagh (6,973 m, definitely not 7,723 m).
		Bayankala Mountains, 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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kunlun_Mountains (328 words)

	Muztagh Ata - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Muztagh Ata, or Muztagata (Chinese language: 慕士塔格峰; pinyin: Mùshìtǎgé Fēng), is the second highest mountain in the Kunlun Shan, the mountain range which forms the northern edge of the Tibetan Plateau.
		It is also reputedly one of the easiest 7,000m peaks in the world to climb, due to its gentle western slope and the comparatively drier weather of Xinjiang.
		Together they form a somewhat isolated group, separated from the main chain of the Kunlun, and also separate from the Pamir Mountains to the west.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Muztagh_Ata (345 words)

	EnergeticArts.Org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Kunlun Shan Qigong is unlike many systems of Qigong taught today it doesn't utilize Martial Arts as its efficacy for practice.
		Today Kunlun Shan Qigong is not a very mainstream practice, there are very few Traditional Masters left and the pace of society is quit different from that of Mountainous regions in China.
		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)

	Timber Press: Excerpt from The Jade Garden
		It is defined geographically on the south by the Kunlun Shan and Altun Shan and on the west by the Pamir Knot.
		At the southwest edge of the Tian Shan, the small, isolated Turfan Basin is in sharp contrast to the vast steppe grasslands of the Junggar Basin stretching northwest to the Altay Shan on the Kazak border.
		The Qin Ling Shan is a broad transitional zone that divides the realms of the Huang He and Yangtze River Basins, marking climatically the northern limit of the summer monsoon and vegetationally the northern limit of the important complex mixed mesophytic forest formations of central China.
	www.timberpress.com /books/excerpt/0-88192-705-8 (2310 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.
		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.
		All the chains are ridges of the Tien Shan except the meridian one, run west-east and consists of four separated by natural features: the Central Tien Shan, the Northern and the Western and the Inner Tien Shan.
	ari.rdx.net /abc/mountains/asia.htm (9289 words)

	SummitPost - Kingata Tagh, ("Father of Clouds") -- Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering
		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.
		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.
		Although Pamir, Karakoram and Kunlun owe their existance to exactly the same geological activity and were born simultaniously, the are considered seperate on grounds as dividing major river valleys and watersheds.
	summitpost.org /mountain/rock/153445/kingata-tagh-father-of-clouds.html (9082 words)

	Shan Yu's Story: xiang
		Shan Yu found himself discomfited by the growing distress in his father's usually calm and tempered voice.
		Shan Yu and Xiang locked eyes, both surrendering to a moment of panic at the thought of their last moments together being cut short.
		Shan Yu whirled and dashed away the tears with the heel of his hand, silently vowing never to free them again.
	hare.bio.miami.edu /hun/xiang.html (7009 words)

	Travelling the QinghaiTibetan Highway - photos of Qinghai Province on Worldisround
		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/index.html (463 words)

	Kunlun Shan Mountain Range - Tibet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Kunlun Shan is a major mountain system of Asia, situated in China about halfway between the Himalayas and Tian Shan.
		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.
		Near the center of the Kunlun Shan, a 500-mile northern branch called the Altun Tagh
	www.volcanolive.com /kunlun3.html (119 words)

	Geomorphology: Chapter 4 Plate F-18
		Renewed uplift in the Cenozoic produced the present dichotomy between the Tian Shan and the Tarim Basin that is evident on this Landsat scene.
		The Tarim Basin is named for the Tarim River, which is fed by snow and glaciers of the Tian Shan, the Kunlun Mountains of northern Tibet, and the Pamirs of the China/Afghanistan/ U.S. border region.
		The old fan surfaces are dark on this Landsat image, probably because of the accumulation of desert varnish (mainly manganese oxides) on the coarse particles of the fan surfaces.
	daac.gsfc.nasa.gov /geomorphology/GEO_4/GEO_PLATE_F-18.shtml (767 words)

	Kun Lun
		The mountains rise to 7719 m atop Kongur Tagh and extend east to west for more than 2410 km between the northern edge of the Tibetan Plateau (Qing Zang Gaoyuan) and the two arid basins, the Tarim Pendi and the Qaidam Pendi.
		The Altun (A-erh-chin) Shan, a range that encircles the Qaidam Pendi, is sometimes defined as part of the Kunlun system.
		India claims territory in the western Kunlun Mountains.
	www.mountainguides.ru /kunlun (83 words)

	2004 Expedition to Kunlun Shan: Update 11
		It is with intrepid spirit of adventure and respect that the Kunlun 2004 expedition is being planned.
		Research has shown that there are 230 peaks over 6000m in the Kunlun Shan and that fewer than 50 of those have ever been climbed!
		The goal of the Kunlun 2004 expedition is to explore several unknown peaks of the Aksai Chin plateau with the motives of first ascents of 6000m peaks and scientific research in the form of geological survey data collection.
	www.everestnews2004.com /stories2004/kunlun2004u11.htm (3239 words)

	Cenozoic deformation of the Tarim plate and the implications for mountain building in the Tibetan Plateau and the Tian ...
		The Tarim basin in NW China developed as a complex foreland basin in the Cenozoic in association with mountain building in the Tibetan Plateau to the south and the Tian Shan orogen to the north.
		Two-dimensional and three-dimensional finite element models are then used to simulate the flexural deformation of the Tarim basement in response to the sedimentary loads and additional tectonic loads associated with overthrusting of the surrounding mountain belts.
		The results suggest that uplift of both the western Kunlun Shan and the Tian Shan orogens started during or before Oligocene.
	www.agu.org /pubs/crossref/2002/2001TC001300.shtml (311 words)

	ALAN G JONES Publications: No. 90 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The model obtained from inverting all responses simultaneously shows that a pervasive midcrustal conductor extends from the Kunlun Shan to the Bangong-Nuijiang suture.
		The vertically integrated conductivity (conductance) of this crustal layer is greatest in the northern Qiangtang terrane at latitude 34 deg N. The electrical resistivity of the upper mantle is constrained by the MT data to be in the range of 10—30 ohm.m across the Songpan-Ganze and Qiangtang terranes.
		The MT responses are more consistent with a model in which Asian lithosphere extends as far south as the Kunlun Shan, and the upper mantle beneath the Songpan-Ganze and Qiangtang terranes is sufficiently hot to contain a small fraction of interconnected partial melt.
	www.geophysics.dias.ie /~ajones/papers/90.html (237 words)

	Tian Shan
		The E Tian Shan are relatively low parallel ranges that divide the Dzungaria and Tarim basins; the W Tian Shan separate into numerous complex branches.
		Issyk-Kol, W Tian Shan, is one of the world's largest mountain lakes.
		Coal, iron, lead, and zinc are mined in the region; grains are the predominant crop in the valleys.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0848674.html (281 words)

	Tibet Alpine Mountaineering Guide
		In the West Plateau is the northeast section of the well-known Hengduan Shan Range, generally called the East Tibetan Area of High Mountains and Canyons, with its steep mountain tops and most of the northern peaks at an altitude of about 5,200 meters.
		Snows at the top never melt all the year round, the forests on the mountain side dense and luxuriant, the piedimount field green all the seasons--a beautiful view of the south region of steep canyons.
		Situated amid the Kunlun Shan Range, the Tanggula Shan, Gangdisi Shan and the Nyanqingtangula Shan, north Tibetis called "Qiangtang" in Tibetan language which means "the highland in the north", its usual name being the North Tibetan Plateau with an altitude of 4,500 meters.
	members.tripod.com /~qinz/mount/tibet.html (243 words)

	Seisme Tibet-Kunlun Fault Nov.2001 - Tectonique IPGP
		If the location of the photograph is correct, the surface rupture of the earthquake, which appears to be locally purely strike-slip with several meters of sinistral slip, might reach a length of 250 km.
		The Kunlun fault lies south of the Qiman Tagh active thrusts, which bound the southern edge of the 2700m- high Qaidam Basin.
		The roughly parallel Kunlun fault and Qimantagh thrusts are a typical example of large-scale slip-partitioning in Tibet (Meyer et al., 1998; Tapponnier et al., Science in press).
	www.ipgp.jussieu.fr /~lacassin/Kunlun/kunlun.html (729 words)

	.: C H I N A - L A N D M A R K - P R O J E C T - B y - S a r a :.
		Tian Shan is also sometimes spelt Tien Shan, it has two spellings.
		The Kunlun Shan moutain range runs along the western boarder of China.
		The Kunlun Shan is one of the longest moutain chains in Asia, extending more then 3000 km.
	www.freewebs.com /chinalandmarkproject (597 words)

	Global Volcanism Program \| Kunlun Volcanic Group \| Summary
		The Kunlun volcano group in NW Tibet contains 70 well-preserved pyroclastic cones.
		The trachyandesitic Ashikule volcano group at the western end of the Kunlun Mountains is the site of at least 10 volcanoes of Pliocene-to-Holocene age, including Ashi Shan volcano, the youngest in China.
		China's most recent volcanic eruption was observed by a road-building crew on May 27, 1951, at Ashi Shan (also known as Ka-er-daxi or Vulkan) pyroclastic cone.
	www.volcano.si.edu /world/volcano.cfm?vnum=1004-03- (148 words)

	Kunlun - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Kunlun system acts as a natural barrier between N Tibet and the Tarim basin of Xinjiang; streams rising on the northern slope of the Kunlun disappear into the basin's desert sands.
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Kunlun" at HighBeam.
		Western Kunlun mountains: another breeding ground for Tibetan antelope.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/K/Kunlun.asp (171 words)

	t32e in fm99
		The Bayan Har terrane and the KunLun to the north show strong reflections in the upper 35 km, which modeling apparently needs to include velocity or attenuation inversion zones, but which may be spatially variable.
		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.
		We suggest that rapid vertical deformation in the Min Shan may be driven by upwelling of weak lower crustal material as it is expelled from beneath the plateau and impinges on cool, unthickened crust at the plateau margin.
	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)

	High Resolution Satellite Images from the Yecheng - Aksai Chin - Western Tibet - Kathmandu Highway
		Both flights begins near Dahonglituan in the mountians of the Kunlun Shan in the Karakax Valley, A loop to the Region around Tielong and Sumxi takes you back to the starting point.
		The Kashgar-Lhasa-Highway from Kudi over the Kunlun Shan Mountains, Aksai Chin to Misar/Moincer in Western Tibet.
		The road from Ali/Shiquanhe to Zhada (Tholing), respectively to the ruins of the Guge Kingdom (Tsaparang) and to Mount Kailash and Lake Manasarovar.
	www.raize.ch /Reisen/velo-eurasien/satellite-images.htm (331 words)

	DID TARIM (+NORTH CHINA) COLLIDE WITH QIANGTANG (+SOUTH CHINA) IN BOTH THE DEVONIAN AND THE TRIASSIC? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Ar thermochronology and U-Pb ion microprobe zircon geochronology indicate that the western Kunlun Shan and Altyn Mountains along the southern edge of Tarim experienced widespread middle to late Paleozoic contractional deformation, regional metamorphism, and calc-alkaline to peraluminous magmatism.
		The middle to late Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the western Kunlun Shan is broadly similar to that inferred for the Qiangtang terrane to the south, based on recent work.
		We propose that during the Late Devonian to Early Carboniferous the composite Tarim-North China block collided with the Qiangtang and South China terranes along the northern margin of Gondwana to form a supercontinent.
	gsa.confex.com /gsa/2001CD/finalprogram/abstract_3983.htm (332 words)

	Hexagram 30
		The Kunlun Shan stretches 1000 miles past dreary provincial towns and desolate roads, 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 along the narrow western section, it highest peaks are found.
		The Kunlun is a mountain range of massive peaks that separates Xinjiang from Tibet in western China.
	www.fortunecity.com /business/influence/1805/the_page_of_li__the_middle_daughter.htm (2605 words)

	Crustal and upper mantle structure beneath Northern Tibet and the Kunlun Shan : initial results of 1999 INDEPTH MT ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In April-June 1999 this study was extended to cover the Northern part of the Tibetan plateau where competing models for the formation of the Tibetan plateau predict very different crustal and mantle structure.
		These data have been inverted to generate an electrical resistivity model of the crust and mantle beneath the northern margin of the plateau.
		The Kunlun Shan is characterized by a resistive crust that is bounded by sediment filled basins on both the north and south.
	www.geophysics.dias.ie /~ajones/papers/1999/agu_unsworth.html (427 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		TL: TL: According to Alphéraky (1897) the type locality is "Chaine de Humboldt, dans le Nan-Chan, tant pres de la source Oulanboulak (9.000'), que pres de Maradavan, juscu'a une altitude de 14.000'" [China, western part of the Qilian Shan system, Danghe Nanshan (=Humboldt Mts.), Ulan Bulak (9.000') and Karadavan (14.000')].
		According to the same authors a part of the type material was collected at Daxue Shan east of Danghe nanshan, close to or in the riverbed of the Suloi-he (Shule He).
		China: Nan Shan, Danghe Nan Shan, Altun Shan and Qilian Shan.
	kotisivu.dnainternet.net /laihoju/cow/grumi/grumi.htm (352 words)

	Thin Ice: Photographs
		Alpenglow illuminates the 20,300-foot drilling camp on the Guliya ice cap in the remote Kunlun Shan in western Tibet, during Lonnie Thompson's three-month expedition in 1992.
		Dunde lies in the Qilian Shan, the range that defines the border between the Gobi Desert to the north and the Tibetan Plateau to the south.
		The 1993 drilling camp silhouetted against the south summit of Huascarán, the highest mountain in Peru, alight with alpenglow.
	www.mark-bowen.com /photographs.html (594 words)

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