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	Tarim Basin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Tarim Basin is one of the largest endorheic drainage basins in the world, lying between several mountain ranges in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China's far west.
		The Silk road in the Tarim Basin between Kashgar (39°28′N 76°03′E) and Yumen (39°50′N 97°34′E) split in two routes, along the northern and the southern edges of the Taklamakan.
		Robbers on the Silk Road, Mogao caves in the eastern Tarim Basin, 535-556 CE.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tarim_Basin (633 words)

	Energy and Geoscience Institute Instructional Services Catalog
		Schematic cross-section of the Tarim Basin 32 Fig.
		Isopachs of a) the Jurassic strata, and b) the Cretaceous strata, in the Tarim (Talimu) Basin, Xinjiang, northwestern China 112 Fig.
		Migration of the depocenters from Permian to Tertiary 156 Fig.
	associates.egi.utah.edu /Database/ReportReview.cfm?Record=161 (1358 words)

	CHINA FACTS & FIGURES 2002 - china.org.cn
		Tarim Basin: Situated in the southern part of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, it is China's largest basin embraced by the Tianshan and Kunlun mountain ranges.
		Taklimakan in the center of the basin is the largest desert and a region with one of the largest oil and gas reserves in China.
		Qaidam Basin: Situated in the northeast of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, it is surrounded by the Kunlun and Qilian mountain ranges.
	www.china-hiking.com /ChinaStatus/geography/Basins.htm (225 words)

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		The Bohai Bay basin was formed and evolved on the basis of the ancient North China Platform through the platform-development period of the Middle-Upper Proterozoic and Paleozoic, and the faulted-subsidence development period of Mesozoic and Cenozoic.
		The sags of the basin are controlled by faults, which include the pre-Mesozoic NW faults active chronically and the new NE faults formed during the Yanshan movement period, and they cut the basin into square figures by which the sags and the uplifts are distributed alternately.
		Depressions in basin are all asymmetric syncline which is flat in the south and steep in the north.
	www.ccop.or.th /epf/china/china_petroleum.html (2703 words)

	"Mystery of the mummies"
		Some scholars believe the Tarim Basin people probably migrated through central Eurasia to the land that, centuries later, became known as the southern leg of the famous Silk Route linking East and West.
		But Kamberi believes the Tarim Basin people existed as a tribe in the region from time-before-time; he has discovered a single piece of human skull in the mountains near there that dates back a half-million years, he said.
		He became determined to hunt down the Tarim Basin people's history in the early 1990s, after the frozen 4,000-year-old body of a man was found preserved in the Alps on the Austria-Italy border.
	sln.fi.edu /inquirer/mummy.html (1569 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Tarim Basin deciduous forests and steppe (PA0442) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Tarim River is an oasis that waters a strip 300 miles (500 km) long, running through China’s largest and driest desert, the Taklimakan.
		In the local Uygur language, tarim means "converging of waters." Among braided channels of water, forests of poplar stabilize the sand and moderate the climate.
		Many of the forests along the Tarim River have been cleared for agriculture, and much of the river’s water has been diverted for irrigation, causing lakes in the Tarim Basin to evaporate completely.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/pa/pa0442.html (489 words)

	Depositional style and subsidence history of the Turpan Basin (NW China)
		On the southern margin of the basin, the transport direction is always directed from south to north indicating sediment sources in the Jueluotage Shan, while in the northern part the Late Jurassic uplift of the Bogda Shan provided an important source area from the Early Cretaceous onwards with transport directions from north to south.
		The Turpan Basin is connected to the north and northeast with the Bogda Shan and Haerlike Shan and towards the south with the Jueluotage Shan, adjacent to the Tarim Basin (Fig.
		Evolutionary characteristics of intermontane coal basins of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic basins in Tianshan: Xinjiang Geology, 6: 83~91 (in Chinese with English abstract).
	www.essc.psu.edu /~bjhaupt/papers/sed-geol99.sslh/sedgeol99.html (5032 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Taklimakan desert (PA1330)
		It fills the expansive Tarim Basin between the Kunlun Mountains and the Tibet Plateau to the south and the Tian Shan (Celestial Mountains) to the north.
		On the alluvial fans that spread outward from the foot of the mountains to the floor of the basin, perennial freshwater springs are fed by mountain snowmelt.
		This is comparable to the Tarim Basin biogeographic subunit in the Takla-Makan-Gobi Desert according to Mackinnon et al.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/pa/pa1330_full.html (1098 words)

	RedOrbit - Science - Crude Oil Output to Top 10 Million Tons in Tarim Basin
		Tarim Basin boasts estimated resources of 10.7 billion tons of crude oil and 8.39 trillion cubic meters of natural gas, while its proven geological reserves stand at 440 million tons of oil and 664 billion cubic meters of natural gas.
		Exploration for oil and gas started in the Tarim Basin in 1952, but massive exploitation was launched in 1989, when the country put forward the strategy of "developing oil resources in the west and stabilizing oil production in the east".
		The Tarim Oilfield is also one of the major gas suppliers to the country's massive west-to-east gas transmission project, which expects to provide eastern China's areas with 6.5 billion cubic meters of gas this year through the west-to-east pipeline.
	www.redorbit.com /news/display?id=195624&source=r_science (319 words)

	Quenching thirst in Tarim Basin
		But as Liu Ning, chief engineer of the Ministry of Water Resources points to a vast expanse of water stretching to the horizon in the hinterland of Tarim Basin in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, he assures visitors that this revived lake is indeed very real.
		To date, a green corridor along the river between the 410,000-square-kilometre Taklimakan Desert on the east and Kuluke Desert on the west, is being revived thanks to the diverted water.
		Along the highway adjacent to the river, many of the formerly parched desert shrubs are sprouting again.New buds of Chinese tamarisk and poplar are prevalent in spring.
	www.chinapage.com /river/tarim/news2004.html (1241 words)

	Recent Significant Gas Discoveries in China: Influence on National Energy Structure and Future Gas Exploration, by ...
		Significant gas fields were discovered in China in recent years, such as the Kela 2 gas field in the Tarim Basin, Sulige gas field in the Ordos Basin, Luojiazhai gas field in the Sichuan Basin, etc. These new discoveries strengthen the gas supply to “West-Gas-To-East” gas trunkline.
		Sichuan Basin (Figure 8) is the area that natural gas was discovered and used earliest in China.
		Tarim Basin is the largest continental basin in China, with an area of 560,000 km
	www.searchanddiscovery.com /documents/2004/xie/index.htm (1590 words)

	Archaeological GIS and Oasis Geography in the Tarim Basin
		Archaeological GIS and Oasis Geography in the Tarim Basin
		An Archaeological GIS of the Surkhan Darya Province(Southern Uzbekistan) by: Sebastian Stride
		Archaeological GIS and Oasis Geography in the Tarim Basin
	www.silkroadfoundation.org /newsletter/vol2num2/oasis.html (2020 words)

	The Epoch Times \| China’s Longest Inland River Suffers Severe Drought
		Xinhua News Agency quoted the Tarim River Basin Management Bureau announcement that the water transfer is from Bositeng Lake.
		This is the seventh emergency water transfer into the Tarim River in the past five years.
		The river basin is 1,200,000 square kilometer (61 percent of the total area of Xinjiang), with a population of 8,257,000 (47 percent of the total population of Xinjiang).
	www.theepochtimes.com /news/5-5-25/29075.html (462 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Tocharians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Tarim mummies suggest that precursors of these easternmost speakers of an Indo-European language may have lived in the region of the Tarim Basin from around 1800 BC until finally they were assimilated by Uyghur Turks in the 9th century AD.
		The Tarim Basin mummies (1800 BC) and the Tocharian texts and frescoes from the Tarim Basin (800 AD) have been found in the same general geographical area, and are both connected to an Indo-European origin.
		The Tocharians who remained in the Tarim Basin adopted Buddhism, which, like their alphabet, came from northern India in the first century of the 1st millennium, through the proselytism of Kushan monks.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=Tocharians (2068 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Tarim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The river, which is silt-laden, gives its name to the arid Tarim basin, a great depression, c.800 mi (1,290 km) long and 400 mi (640 km) wide, surrounded by the lofty Tian Shan, Kunlun, and Pamir mountains; the Taklimakan occupies most of the basin.
		China's nuclear-testing center is located at the eastern end of the Tarim basin, near Lop Nur.
		Crude oil output of 5.02 million tons in Tarim oilfield.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/t/tarim.asp (180 words)

	Promoting Sustainable Agriculture in China's Tarim Basin: International Development Research Centre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Farmers in the Tarim Basin, located in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of northwest China, face difficult circumstances.
		To ensure their proposals were realistic, representatives of all major stakeholders in the Tarim Basin were consulted.
		The team designated villages in representative areas of the Tarim Basin where farmers could participate in the testing of various water use scenarios, conservation techniques, and anti-desertification measures.
	www.idrc.ca /en/ev-5265-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html (1039 words)

	Priority Programme for China's Agenda 21
		This project seeks to develop and implement a strategy for the sustainable development of the hydrocarbon resources in the Tarim Basin, and to research the causes and effects of widespread desertification in the Tarim Basin area.
		Such research is of vital importance in order to ensure that the Tarim Basin hydrocarbon resources are developed in a sustainable manner, and contribute to worldwide efforts towards the prevention and control of desertification.
		Ensure that the hydrocarbon resources of the Tarim Basin are developed in a sustainable manner, and research the causes of desertification in the area and its effect on human civilization.
	sedac.ciesin.org /china/policy/acca21/215-5.html (881 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A study was conducted on the Upper Cretaceous to Neogene strata of the Kuche foreland of the Tarim basin.
		The sub-basin initially formed due to collision of the Tarim block with Asia in the Late Carboniferous, and thrusting was reactived during the Mesozoic (Hendrix et al., 1992; Carroll et al., 1995).
		The upper part of this unit is lacustrine, as the Tarim was, by then, separated from the open ocean to the west.
	www.mindspring.com /~pacraig/abstract.txt (265 words)

	Planet Ark : FEATURE - China's Tarim Basin: gushing with oil or just hype?
		The basin is expected to spew six million tonnes (120,000 bpd) of crude oil yearly by 2005.
		The basin is now accessible by one road, a 522-km (326-mile) Desert Highway completed in 1995 at a cost of more than 700 million yuan ($84 million), which needs constant maintenance to keep back the fast-shifting sands of the Taklamakan desert.
		The basin's oil - lifeblood of an economy that grew 9.1 percent in the year to the third quarter - is envisioned as powering western cities such as Urumqi, while natural gas would feed the energy-hungry eastern economic powerhouses for decades.
	www.planetark.com /dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/23079/story.htm (1066 words)

	World Affairs Board - Major oil, gas discovery in NW China's Tarim Basin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Tarim Oilfield Company in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has made important oil and gas discoveries, with daily oil and gas output forecast at 336 cu m and 340,000 cu m, respectively at a wildcat.
		The No. 33 wildcat is located in Aksu County in the southern part of Xinjiang, or the northern part of the Tarim Basin, and was put into operation in February of this year, said sources with the company.
		Currently, the Tarim Oilfield Company is stepping up efforts to conduct seismic data collection and geological strata studies in a bid to develop the new oilfield, the source said.
	www.worldaffairsboard.com /printthread.php?t=7546 (160 words)

	Tarim Basin
		March 1, 1993, China National Oil and Gas Exploration and Development Corporation announced availability of five bid blocks covering 72,730 square kilometers in the southeast part of the Tarim Basin of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China.
		The Petroleum Resource Potential of the Tarim Basin is an excellent tool to assist exploration managers and their staff to quickly understand this complex basin.
		The available data have been reviewed and compiled and a synopsis of the geologic history, stratigraphy, structure, petroleum geology, and source-rock maturation history for the basin is presented.
	www.gustavson.com /oil_gas/Tarim_Basin_Study.htm (332 words)

	Kashgar - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A curious street sight in Kashgar is presented by the hawkers of meat pies, pastry and sweetmeats, which they trundle about on hand-barrows just as their counterparts do in Europe; while the knife-grinder's cart, and the vegetable seller with his tray or basket on his head, recall exactly similar itinerant traders further west.
		The earliest authentic mention of Kashgar is during the second period of ascendancy of the Han dynasty, when the Chinese conquered the Hiungnu, Yutien (Khotan), Sulei (Kashgar), and a group of states in the Tarim basin almost up to the foot of the Tian Shan mountains.
		Kashgar and the other cities of the Tarim basin remained under Yakub Beg's rule until 1877, when the Chinese regained possession of their ancient dominion.
	www.1911ency.org /K/KA/KASHGAR.htm (1530 words)

	Caucasians preceded East Asians in basin - The Washington Times: World - April 20, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The discoveries in the 1980s of the undisturbed 4,000-year-old "Beauty of Loulan" and the 3,000-year-old body of the "Charchan Man" are legendary in international archaeological circles for the fine state of their preservation and for the wealth of knowledge they bring to modern research.
		The desiccated corpses, which avoided natural decomposition because of the dry atmosphere and alkaline soils in the Tarim Basin, have given historians a glimpse of life in the Bronze Age.
		His nearly 6-foot-6 body is the tallest of all the mummies found, and the clothes and artifacts discovered in the surrounding tombs suggest the highest level of Caucasoid civilization in the ancient Tarim Basin region.
	www.washtimes.com /world/20050419-101056-2135r.htm (545 words)

	Aryans: Culture Bearers to China
		The Tocharians are vividly displayed in ancient wall paintings at Kizil and Kumtura (near the modern Chinese city K'u-ch'e, in the Tien Shan Mountains north of the Tarim Basin) as aristocratic Europeans, with red or blond hair parted neatly in the middle, long noses, blue or green eyes set in narrow faces, and tall bodies.
		Significantly, there appear to be many connections between the Tarim Basin mummies and the 5,000 year old "Ice Man" found in the Austrian Alps in 1991.
		Likewise, the Tarim Basin Europeans displayed a definite penchant for spiral solar symbols, painting them on their faces and engraving them on the bridles of their horses.
	library.flawlesslogic.com /china.htm (2554 words)

	Books: Tracking the Tarim Mummies
		In 1995, media reports brought to the public's attention astonishingly well-preserved remains of European-looking people, dressed in European-looking clothes, buried in the Tarim Basin between about 1800 B.C. and A.D. This came about through the persistent efforts of Victor Mair, a professor of Chinese and Indo-Iranian literature and religion at the University of Pennsylvania.
		In the end, their "working hypothesis" is that the earliest Bronze Age colonists of the Tarim Basin were people of Caucasoid physical type who entered probably from the north and west, and probably spoke languages that could be classified as Pre- or Proto-Tocharian, ancestral to the Indo-European Tocharian languages documented later in the Tarim Basin.
		At the eastern end of the Tarim Basin, people of Mongoloid physical type began to be buried in cemeteries such as Yanbulaq some centuries later, during the later second or early first millennium B.C. About the same time, Iranian-speaking people moved into the Tarim Basin from the steppes to the west.
	www.archaeology.org /0103/abstracts/books.html (666 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - China's Tarim Basin has great potential and much oil and gas
		The 560,000-sq-km Basin is estimated to have 10.8 bnt of oil reserves and 8,400 bncm of natural gas reserves, accounting for one-seventh and one-quarter, respectively of the country's total reserves.
		The basin produced 3.15 mmt of crude oil last year, putting it eighth in China, with 142 million yuan in sales.
		The basin has a success rate of 46 % in oil wells, 20 % points higher than the world's rate for deep-stratum oil exploration.
	www.gasandoil.com /goc/reports/rex71107.htm (352 words)

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