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	Takla Makan Desert: Korla Tourist Attractions
		Takla Makan Desert is China's largest desert, situated in the middle of the largest Basin, Tarim in Xinjiang Province.
		This angered him so much that he held her a captive in the Tarim Basin and thus the Takla Makan Desert was formed.
		The Takla Makan Desert is also rich in natural resources, buried under it vast expanse are resources such as groundwater, oil and oil gas.
	www.travelchinaguide.com /attraction/xinjiang/korla/taklamakan.htm (611 words)

	Takla Makan Desert - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Takla Makan Desert - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Takla Makan Desert, also Taklimakan, desert in north-western China, in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, between the Kunlun Mountains on the south...
		Other desert areas in the interiors of some continents have formed because the prevailing winds are far removed from large bodies of water and have...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Takla_Makan_Desert.html (113 words)

	Culture
		Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833 - 1905) considers the Valley of Pamir and Tarim in Uyghur Region to be the center of the first civilization,The desolate wastes of the Takla Makan Desert, Uyghur Region, at the heart of central Asia, are haunted by an ancient mystery.
		Crossing the Takla Makan Desert was the final ordeal, Over the centuries, the Silk Road sprouted a civilization of its own.
		Some of their cities were located remarkably close to the ancient mummy graveyards in the Takla Makan, suggesting that this mysterious tribe may be connected to the mummy people.
	uyghur.50megs.com /photo3.html (1265 words)

	Abstract - PHG 1999 No. 3; Weinan, Fryrear, and Zuotao (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Abstract: The Takla Makan Desert is one of the supposed sources of eolian deposits in the eastern China and the North Pacific Ocean.
		The elemental ratio and the element enrichment factor ruled out the Takla Makan Desert as possible sources of the dust in Hawaii and Alaska.
		The mean geometric diameter of airborne sediments in the 4 to 8 m surface layer from the Luntai oasis was 0.038 mm and from the interior ranged 0.064 to 0.067 mm being moderately to poorly sorted.
	www.bellpub.com /phg/1999/ae990302.htm (332 words)

	Leaving traces behind… presented in History section
		The desolate wastes of the Takla Makan Desert, Uyghur Region, at the heart of central Asia, are haunted by an ancient mystery.
		Crossing the Takla Makan Desert was the final ordeal.
		Some of their cities were located remarkably close to the ancient graveyards in the Takla Makan, suggesting that this mysterious tribe may be connected to the mummies.
	www.newsfinder.org /more.php?id=609_0_1_0_M (889 words)

	Caucasians in China: The Takla Makan Mummies Page 26
		Caucasians in China: The Takla Makan Mummies....Page 26
		They were investigating the mummies of the Takla Makan Desert, corpses so well preserved under the arid sands that the trace of a tear still can be seen streaking the face of a child buried 4,000 years ago.
		Finds such as the Takla Makan mummies are now forcing a reexamination of diffusionism.
	www.s8int.com /page26.html (1818 words)

	MYSTERIOUS WORLD: Winter 2002: Fragments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Secreted away in the sands of the Takla Makan desert in northeast China are the remnants of an ancient civilization previously unknown to mankind.
		This civilization once may have been vast, spanning the central Asian region, but only that part of it that spanned the Takla Makan is now remembered, due to the incredible preservative properties of its salty sands that preserved enough of this ancient civilization to bring it to remembrance.
		The Takla Makan mummies, also known as the "Urumchi Mummies", are currently on display in the Provincial Museum of Ürümchi.
	www.mysteriousworld.com /Journal/2002/Winter/Fragments (4333 words)

	Nature in Central Asia - Central Asian Steppe Deserts
		The Karakum and Kyzylkum Deserts of Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan are wind carved and peppered with sand ridges.
		The Gobi and Takla Makan Deserts, broad, barren, sandy and rocky plains, are further east, where China and Mongolia meet.
		The Takla Makan, by contrast, is one of the largest sandy deserts in the world, famous for its swiftly moving dunes.
	away.com /tripideas/nature-301013.html (318 words)

	Midlatitude Desert Climate
		The midlatitude desert is found in inner Asia with great expanses in northern (Gobi desert) and northwestern China (Takla Makan desert), Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan.
		The midlatitude desert climate is controlled by the same factors as the tropical desert climates, the influence of high pressure, interior position, and rain shadow location.
		The Takla Makan desert exhibits this influence well as it lies in a depression ringed by mountains preventing even the most meager amount of moisture to penetrate to this interior location.
	www.uwsp.edu /geo/faculty/ritter/geog101/textbook/climate_systems/midlatitude_desert.html (462 words)

	Across the Takla Makan - SRT26
		The Takla Makan Desert constitutes one of the largest moving bodies of sand in the world.
		Stretching west from the ancient Silk Road trading center of Kashgar to the mysterious desert of Lop in the East, it's dunes conceal the ruins of numerous ancient civilizations.
		This program offers a safe twelve days crossing of the Takla Makan, seven of these are spent on foot, five in 4 wheel drive vehicles.
	www.goldenbridge.net /SRT26.HTM (342 words)

	The large blank spot
		Cut off from the rest of Asia by the largest, highest mountain ranges in the world, it was separated from China by the fearsome and deadly Takla Makan desert to the east and the equally forbidden and unknown Tibetan plateau to the south.
		The Takla Makan is more susceptible to vicious sandstorms that can last for weeks, blowing fl sand into every tiny crevice and crack, blinding man and animal alike.
		It is said the two Chinese preferred to blow themselves up with barrels of gunpowder rather than surrender, and a colorful, if horrifying story reports that Kashgar's defenders had cannibalized their own women and children before surrendering, having already consumed every four legged beast in the town, including rats and cats.
	www.jmhare.com /hayward3.htm (1168 words)

	Makan, - Aksi Mogok Makan Korban Sutet Masih Berlangsung - Nasional Hak
		Takla Makan Desert in Xinjiang Province Takla Makan Desert is China's largest desert, situated in the
		Makan Konate enters his third year with the Patriots and is expected to challenge PERSONAL: Full name is Makan Oury-Fa Konate Born August 22, 1983 in
		These Makan candleholders set of two are made of hand forged metal and the fl basecoat has heavy brown distressing.
	listintra.com /?q=makan (397 words)

	AYMHM: Articles You May Have Missed--WN Sep 1997
		The importance of the Magao grottoes in Dunhuang, China is clearly described and the joint venture undertaken by the Getty Conservation Institute, the Dunhuang Academy, and the State Bureau of Cultural Relics of China for its preservation and conservation is outlined.
		Dunhuang is an area in China that lies at the edge of the Gobi and Takla Makan deserts.
		It provided the last oasis on the ancient Silk Road of China for travelers that would then head West around the Takla Makan Desert.
	palimpsest.stanford.edu /waac/wn/wn19/wn19-3/wn19-311.html (1196 words)

	Rambles: Falascone, Monico & Locatelli, Takla Makan
		Not quite what it looks like on paper, this founding recording of what became the Takla collective features Massimo Falascone (reeds), Giancarlo Locatelli (clarinets) and Filippo Monico (drums) playing as a trio and also with guests Simonetta Artuso (vocals), Fabrizio Spera (drums) and Barre Philips (bass).
		Falascone, Locatelli and Monico are establishing themselves, along with Martini, as big-hitters on the Italian free jazz scene outside of the gravitational fields of the Sub Ensemble and the Instabile Orchestra.
		The Takla label, named after this recording, has released several indispensible discs, and for those who have them, this is where to fill in some history; for those who don't know this stuff, it's not a bad place to start.
	www.rambles.net /falascone_takla97.html (810 words)

	China Mummies
		They are referred to as Cherchan Mummies, Tarim Basin Mummies, Takla Makan Mummies, Urumchi Mummies, the Desert Mummies, Qawrighut (where Loulan was found), etc. This basin, full of pits of salt (where nothing can grow), became a large cemetery.
		China is the world’s longest continuous civilization and it was the source of the silk that led to the establishment of the Silk Road.
		It was in the Takla Makan Desert, along this ancient road, that these mysterious mummies were found.
	library.thinkquest.org /J003409/china.htm (1184 words)

	GRENBLT2.HTM
		Throughout history, travellers have sought to skirt the Takla Makan, proceeding from oasis to oasis along its perimeter.
		Chinese Turkestan is surrounded on three sides by high mountain ranges: to the west toward Afghanistan and Tajikistan by the Pamir; to the south toward Kashmir and Tibet by the Karakoram and Kun Lun; and to the north toward Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan and the northwest tip of China by the Tien Shan.
		As a by-product of these clandestine activities, one British agent passed on reports that after sandstorms some of the ancient houses of the buried city of Khotan were left uncovered and local inhabitants often succeeded in digging out various objects that had been buried there.
	www.chilit.org /GRENBLT2.HTM (6207 words)

	From Russia to India (part IV: Travel Notes from Takla Makan Desert)
		I crossed Takla Makan and spent night in the middle of it.
		But unlike Marian Depression which is filled with water, Takla Makan is filled with the sand.
		This is why TM was crossed by a human for the first time only in the beginning of 20 century.Five years ago, the Chinese built the road across the TM.
	www.odyssei.com /travel-article/7168.html (655 words)

	Himalayas, Mount Everest
		Some clouds along the lower foothills on the southwest side of the Himalayas and some snowcapped mountain ridges and peaks are visible in the photograph.
		Toward the horizon, hazy and dusty conditions seem to exist on the Indo-Gangetic Plain of northern India (southwest) and the Takla Makan Desert of western China (NASA).
		The Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau (also known as the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau) shown in this photograph (below) were formed and continue to be modified by the convergent collision of two of the world's great continental tectonic plates, the Eurasian and the Indian-Australian.
	www.globe-images.net /himalayas.htm (2739 words)

	Takla Makan - Free Music Downloads - MP3 Downloads - Download.com Music
		Takla Makan is the artist name of Tony Allgood.
		As yet Takla Makan has never found a home on any commercial label.
		Many have been approached but the difficulty in tying his music down to a particular genre has scared all too many of them.
	music.download.com /taklamakan/3600-8362_32-100710578.html (236 words)

	(musings) Falascone, Monico & Locatelli review
		Releases featuring Falascone and Locatelli have now been released on Takla Records, run by these two with fellow reedsman Fabio Martini.
		Falascone, Locatelli and Monico are establishing themselves, along with Fabio Martini, as big-hitters on the Italian free jazz scene outside of the gravitational fields of the Sub Ensemble and the Instabile Orchestra.
		The Takla label, named after this recording, released three indispensible discs this year, and for those who have them, this is where to fill in some history; for those who don't know this stuff, it's not a bad place to start.
	www20.brinkster.com /improarchive/ms_takla.htm (833 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Animals - Children's Zone - Features - Living Deserts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Takla Makan desert in the far north west of China is one of the largest sandy deserts in the world.
		The Takla Makan is not as hot as other deserts with a top temperature around 39°C, but it has less than 4cm of rain each year.
		In the winter it gets very cold - down to minus 20°C. In spring there are high winds and hurricane-force dust storms that spiral up in the sky or form great dust clouds.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nature/reallywild/features/picpops/desert_takla_makan.shtml (141 words)

	Falascone, Monico & Locatelli \| Takla Makan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Takla Makan is a desert in Northwest China, which is purported to be bleak and uninhabited as the landscape comprises little else than sand dunes.
		While the approach may seem raw or earthy, the trio and guest artists maintain a sturdy sense of tonal color albeit — of the abstract variety -.
		Takla Makan is a prime example of the major strides taken by the abundant talent originating from Italy.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=4340 (523 words)

	Space photos
		Viewing north to south, three major physiographic features are clearly seen in this panorama of western China—the southern fringe of the Takla Makan Desert, the high Kunlun Mountains, and the Tibetan Plateau.
		The city of Hotan is not discernible at this scale; however, it lies between two stream channels within the darker delta.
		The snowcapped, generally east-west trending Kunlun Mountains, with most peaks exceeding 20 000 feet (7000 meters), are a major physical barrier between the Takla Makan Desert and the extensive, elevated, arid Tibetan Plateau.
	www.spacephotos.com /catalog/product_info.php?products_id=4185 (294 words)

	NOVA \| Transcripts \| Mysterious Mummies of China \| PBS
		NARRATOR: The desolate wastes of the Takla Makan Desert, at the heart of central Asia, are haunted by an ancient mystery.
		Crossing the Takla Makan Desert was the final ordeal, leading at last to China's frontier.
		Some of their cities were located remarkably close to the ancient mummy graveyards in the Takla Makan, suggesting that this mysterious tribe may be connected to the mummy people.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/transcripts/2502chinamum.html (5869 words)

	REINHART MAZUR'S TRAVEL THROUGH GOBI AND TAKLA MAKAN
		Baikal See - Gobi - Takla Makan - Südkaukasus
		Von Anfang April bis Ende August 2004 unternahmen wir mit dem Toyota LandCruiser HZJ75 eine Reise über mehr als 33.000 km, die uns zum Baikalsee, durch die Gobi in der Mongolei und China, durch die Takla Makan und weiter durch Zentralasien zum Kaspischen Meer und zum Südkaukasus führte.
		Ich verzichte auf eine langatmige Darstellung aller Erlebnisse, die wir auf unserer Reise gemacht haben.
	www.tlc-exped.net /R25Ber.html (113 words)

	Pyramid: Suppressed Transmission: The Desert of No Return: The Takla Makan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Buddhist monk Hsuan Tsang repeatedly chanted this sutra as he crossed the Takla Makan desert in 629 A.D. He had to, to drown out the noises and music that followed him across the singing sands of the great waste.
		But bisociated just a bit, his sutra might serve equally well to describe the Takla Makan -- emptiness that is form, form that is emptiness.
		And so, perhaps, Hsuan Tsang was naming the desert, rather than abjuring it; walking and talking into its empty heart, giving the emptiness the form handed down by the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, and thus mastering it.
	www.sjgames.com /pyramid/sample.html?id=5606 (338 words)

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		Dust is lofted each day in the Gobi and/or Takla Makan, but the dust concentration and optical depths are not as high.
		Little dust is lifted on the 18th under the SW ridge.
		An upper level disturbance cuts below the ridge to loft dust in The Takla Makan on the 19th and continues to loft dust in the Gobi on the 20th.
	www.nrlmry.navy.mil /aerosol/Case_studies/adam/2003041700/dust_summary.txt (260 words)

	Soka Gakkai Dictionary of Buddhism
		The greater part of the Tarim Basin consists of the Takla Makan Desert.
		At the eastern rim of the Tarim Basin, the road from China divided into two branches and ran westward along the northern and southern edges of the Takla Makan Desert.
		These constituted the northern and southern branches of the caravan route known as the Silk Road that connected East and West and served as a passageway of commerce and culture.
	www.sgi-usa.org /buddhism/dictionary/define?tid=1855 (265 words)

	uighur-l Uighur mummies say "no" to China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		On a research expedition to western China, Davis-Kimball and two colleagues found themselves wrapped up in a remarkable ancient mystery spiked with modernday political intrigue.
		Chinese scholars have claimed, and Western scholars have agreed, that Chinese culture evolved in isolation, apart from the influence of Europe.
		The Caucasian mummies of the Takla Makan proved otherwise, indicating that Europeans forged eastward thousands of years before anyone thought and built a thriving agricultural society in what's now China's Xinjiang Province.
	www.mail-archive.com /uighur-l@taklamakan.org/msg00877.html (1925 words)

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