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	Tibetan Plateau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The plateau was formed by the collision of the Indo-Australian and Eurasian tectonic plates in the Cenozoic period (approximately 55 million years ago), in a process that is still ongoing.
		The plateau is mainly a high-altitude arid steppe interspersed with mountain ranges and large brackish lakes.
		The techtonic uplift of the plateau is thought to have had a significant effect on climate change, and it is believed to affect the Asian monsoon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tibetan_plateau (507 words)

	Tibetan language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tibetan is typically classified as a Tibeto-Burman language which in turn is, according to the most widespread theory, a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.
		By this definition, Tibetan is spoken by approximately 6 million people across the Tibetan Plateau as well as by approximately 150,000 exile speakers in India and other countries.
		The koiné spoken by Tibetan exiles is derivative largely of the Central Tibetan dialects.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tibetan_language (1454 words)

	Himalaya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Himalaya is a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau.
		The Tibetan Plateau is near the centre and the Taklamakan plain is visible as the lighter area near the top.
		The Salween, Mekong, the Yangtze and the Huang He (Yellow River) all originate from parts of the Tibetan plateau that are geologically distinct from the Himalaya mountains, and are therefore not considered true Himalayan rivers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Himalayas (2614 words)

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		In the mountain rangelands of the eastern Tibetan Plateau, where forests mix with the grasslands, musk deer, red deer, white-lipped deer, roe deer, and takin are found.
		Tibetan antelope have been badly persecuted for their valuable wool, known as shatoosh, which is the finest wool in the world.
		Preserving the remaining populations of Tibetan antelope is a conservation priority for Tibetan rangelands.
	www.fao.org /WAICENT/FAOINFO/AGRICULT/AGP/AGPC/doc/ESSAYS/Fao05.htm (507 words)

	Animal Planet :: Corwin's Carnival of Creatures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Tibetan antelope, or Chiru, is endemic to the Tibetan Plateau.
		Tibetan antelope coat coloration varies from beige and grayish to whitish, with fl markings on the face and legs.
		Tibetan antelopes are most often found along the alpine steppe in northwest Tibet and China, where annual precipitation is less than 16 inches and elevations are between 13,000-18,000 feet.
	animal.discovery.com /fansites/jeffcorwin/carnival/antelope/tibetan.html (777 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Tibetan Plateau alpine shrub and meadows (PA1020)
		The boundaries of this ecoregion are defined by a gradient of decreasing precipitation that extends across the Tibetan Plateau from southeast to northwest.
		The Tibetan Plateau alpine shrublands and meadows ecoregion supports vegetation that is transitional between the cold, moist environments in the eastern part of the Tibetan Plateau and the cold drier steppes and alpine deserts that lie to the west.
		Because the Tibetan Plateau is gently inclined, with the highest elevations in the northwest, latitude and elevation jointly define a gradient of cooling temperatures from southeast to northwest.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/pa/pa1020_full.html (1180 words)

	China
		The Huangtu Plateau on the northwest is formed by the accumulation of fine windblown silt (loess).
		The loosely packed loess is readily subject to erosion, and the plateau's surface is transected by sunken roads, vertical-walled valleys, and numerous gullies.
		The highlands of South China extend from the Tibetan Plateau (Qing Zang Gaoyuan) east to the sea.
	www.ovayonda.ws /lodging/country/cn.html (2588 words)

	Just how old is the Tibetan Plateau?
		Mountainous areas such as the Tibetan Plateau affect weather world-wide, explained Hacker, and "that is one reason for the great interest in the history of the area." The monsoons of India and Asia are caused by the plateau, for example.
		The Tibetan Plateau, including the Himalayan Mountains, is the result of the collision between two tectonic plates, that of India and Asia.
		In the Tibetan Plateau, the maximum height of the plateau is five kilometers before the crust begins to spread out.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2001-08/cfta-jho080801.php (410 words)

	Biodiversity of the Tibetan Plateau
		Tibetan Buddhist scriptures explain that the earth is the noe (container) and all the things on this earth -biotic and abiotic elements as the chue (contents).
		Tibetan forest regions of Nyingtri, Gyalthang, and Drago were ravaged between 1965-1985 and a total of 18 million cubic meters of timber were transported to China.
		Tibetan Plateau is the storehouse of unique flora and fauna found nowhere else in the world, especially of high altitude species.
	www.tibet.com /Eco/Green97/biodiversity.html (6655 words)

	Dissertation Abstract (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Tibetan Plateau extends from the south side of the Kunlun Shan to the north side of the Himalaya Range and consists of three micro-continental fragments that accreted onto the southern margin of Eurasia after the breakup of Gondwana.
		Most models attribute the characteristics of the Tibetan Plateau to underthrusting of the Indian lithosphere beneath the southern margin of Eurasia, distributed shortening and thickening of the Eurasian lithosphere and lateral extrusion of crustal blocks.
		Accurate determination of the upper mantle velocity structure of the Tibetan Plateau is thought to be a key to understanding the tectonic evolution of this important region.
	www.avo.alaska.edu /Input/affiliated/mcnamara/diss.html (472 words)

	WWF - Tibetan Plateau Steppe - A Global 200 Ecoregion
		The Tibetan Plateau Steppe - one of the largest land-based wilderness areas left in the world - has the most pristine mountain grassland in Eurasia.
		Due to its size and its position near the tropics, the Tibetan Plateau is one of the most ecologically diverse alpine communities on Earth.
		Despite low population density, hunting threatens many species of mammals (especially the Argali and the Tibetan antelope, which are being slaughtered at an unsustainable rate for their high-quality wool) and large birds.
	www.panda.org /about_wwf/where_we_work/ecoregions/tibetan_plateau_steppe.cfm (402 words)

	Nuclear Weapons on the Tibetan Plateau
		So it is especially disturbing for Tibetans to report that their motherland, dedicated to the peaceful development of the human spirit, under China's occupation has become the storehouse of Chinese nuclear weapons, and a place for radioactive waste dumping.
		Massive deforestation of the Tibetan Plateau largely contributes to the siltation of the downstream rivers and the increasingly destructive flooding that occurs each year.
		Upsetting the ecological balance of the high Tibetan Plateau also affects the jet streams that blow over it, and this in turn is found to be irreversibly linked with the environment of the whole Asian continent and the global climatic patterns.
	www.tibet.com /Eco/Green98/chap6.html (7532 words)

	Tibetan Bulletin - Online: Volume 9, Issue 2, MARCH-APRIL 2005
		In the case of the Tibetan region, even though environmental protection is acclaimed as part of the official policy, there remains a huge gap between the official claims and the ground reality.
		Economic drive supersedes everything, and there is real danger that the Tibetan Plateau, acknowledged officially as environmentally cleaner and in better state relative to the rest of China, would suffer the same fate that the environment in China faced because of its "pollute now and pay later" approach.
		Under China’s present development policies, where the Tibetans are heavily marginalized in spite of the provision under the Chinese laws guaranteeing specific rights to protect their interests, these projects, on becoming commercially operational, would impact adversely the livelihood of Tibetan farmers and nomads in the mining region.
	www.tibet.net /tibbul/2005/0304/enviro1.html (2241 words)

	Asian Eden
		Tibetan antelope in the Kunlun Mountains, Qinghai Province, China.
		Largely surrounded by mountains, the plateau is something of an Asian Serengeti, says George Schaller, a noted mammologist who's studied great apes, pandas and other showy and endangered critters for four decades.
		Recall that Schaller began studying the Tibetan Plateau as a final planetary refuge for wild animals.
	whyfiles.org /136last_eden/2.html (632 words)

	Tibetan Medicine Resources
		The Yuthog Foundation for Tibetan Medicine Preservation and development of traditional Tibetan medicine by education and training of Tibetan doctors in rural areas of Ladakh, and promoting the exchange of experiences in use and identification of medicinal plants.
		The Tibetan Plateau Project to protect and conserve medicinal plants, support the practice of Tibetan medicine and assist local communities in developing income-generating projects using medicinal plants.
		The Mountain Institute is committed to the preservation of mountain environments and advancement of mountain cultures worldwide, with projects in Nepal and on the Tibetan Plateau.
	www.dharma-haven.org /tibetan/medicine.htm (740 words)

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		Not surprisingly the southeastern plateau has been known since the early 1910s as being rich in species diversity and is currently recognized by WWF and others as a global biodiversity conservation region of the highest priority.
		The forests of the Tibetan Plateau are of the greatest importance to regional and international water regimes.
		Forest ecosystems are on the decline on the Plateau.
	ourworld.cs.com /danwink/id52_m.htm (3112 words)

	Tibetan plateau's height constant since 35 mln years - World News - Webindia123.com
		The Tibetan Plateau, often known as the roof of the world has remained at a constant height for at least 35 million years.
		The study appearing in the journal Nature said that the formation of the Tibetan plateau took place due a collision between India and Asia nearly 50 million years ago, as a result of plate tectonics, a large-scale geologic force that slowly moves the continents around the Earth's surface.
		The collision took place in an area that once may have resembled the tropical Indonesian island of Sumatra, and today, the plateau stretches for 190,000 square miles at an elevation of approximately 16,000 feet, it said.
	news.webindia123.com /news/showdetails.asp?id=244696&cat=World (416 words)

	Tibet
		The Tibetan Plateau covers an area about half that of the lower 48 United States and is bounded by the deserts of the Tarim and Qaidam Basins to the north and the Himalayan, Karakoram, and Pamir mountain chains to its south and west.
		Tibetan fused the Indian Astronomy, the Tibetan creativities and the Han calendars (rgya-rtsis) to form their own calendars, later they adopted more from the Han calendars to form the present Tibetan calendars.
		The Tibetan robes, which serve as blankets at night, are very long and are worn down to the knees with the extra length tucked and held up by a waistband or belt.
	www.crystalinks.com /tibet3.html (4426 words)

	Change and Continuity in Nomadic Pastoralism on the Western Tibetan plateau
		This changtang corresponds roughly to the Northern Tibet Plateau sub-area of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau as it is defined by Chinese scientists.
		The Northern Tibet Plateau includes most of the central-northern part of Tibet and western Qinghai, and is bounded in the north by the Kunlun mountains and by the Gandise range in the south (see map 1).
		Reference to the area as a plateau, however, is somewhat misleading since rather than being flat, it actually consists of many small mountain chains interspersed between high altitude valleys and plains.
	www.cwru.edu /affil/tibet/booksAndPapers/Change_and_Continuity_Nomadic_Tibet.htm (9094 words)

	The Tibetan plateau is being compressed between the Indian subcontinent to the south and the solid wall of the North ...
		The Tibetan plateau is being compressed between the Indian subcontinent to the south and the solid wall of the North China block, new research indicates USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education) - Find Articles
		The Tibetan plateau is being compressed between the Indian subcontinent to the south and the solid wall of the North China block, new research indicates.
		The rifts are from the east-west stretching of the plateau," maintains Paul Kapp, assistant professor of geosciences at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1272/is_2721_133/ai_n13801773 (201 words)

	Geomorphology: Chapter 2 Plate T-48
		In the Plate, the extensive area of light-brown (tawny) terrain containing scattered lakes that indicate closed drainage basins is the youthful topography of the Tibetan Plateau.
		Despite the great elevations of the Tibetan Plateau, the comparatively gentle topography of much of this plateau (Figure T-48.4 (Landsat) and Figure T-48.5 (ground)), except near its northern and southern margins and in several ranges such as the Tengulla Shan (Figure T-48.6) that lie within it, is strong evidence for recent uplift.
		Many of the circular features that dot the plateau are young volcanoes (e.g., southeast of the boot-shaped lake in Figure T-48.2) or recent intrusions.
	disc.gsfc.nasa.gov /geomorphology/GEO_2/GEO_PLATE_T-48.shtml (1386 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- North Tibetan Plateau-Kunlun Mountains alpine desert (PA1011) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The alpine deserts of this ecoregion extend across a plateau between two mountain regions: the Karakoram and the Kunlun.
		Tibetan antelopes (chirus), Tibetan argali, blue sheep, Tibetan gazelles, and wild yaks all graze within the eastern part of the region.
		And fl-necked cranes and Tibetan snowcocks breed around the salty lakes at the edges of the ecoregion.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/pa/pa1011.html (365 words)

	The Jakarta Post - The Journal of Indonesia Today
		Close proximity to the nearby highland, the Tibetan plateau, is the unique characteristic of the park.
		The plateau is famous for its unique climate, such as extreme cold, oxygen deficiency, strong sunshine and non-polluted air that contributes to the unique characteristics of the medicinal herbs growing in this land, as well as the animals.
		With the establishment of the industrial park and the Tibetan medicine center, the importance of the Tibetan plateau gains new heights.
	www.thejakartapost.com /yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20041215.L04 (622 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- North Tibetan Plateau-Kunlun Mountains alpine desert (PA1011)
		The Tibetan Plateau, treeless except in the southeastern river valleys, supports a range of alpine vegetation types that includes meadow, steppe, cold desert and sub-nival cushion plant communities at elevations ranging from 3,500 to nearly 6,000 m.
		Dry, cold, and expansive, the Tibetan Plateau possesses an alpine landscape of complex zonation with a general trend from moist alpine scrub to steppe vegetation to high, cold desert along a transect from southeast to northwest.
		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.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/pa/pa1011_full.html (1399 words)

	Tenttom.com...The Nomad Camps in Tibet from today andyesturday.
		In the summer of 1988, I traveled across the grazing lands of Qinghai Province in the northeastern part of the Tibetan Plateau; range lands that have been noted for thousands of years as some of the best grazing lands in Asia.
		Tibetan nomads have been raising livestock for thousands of years and over the centuries have acquired intricate ecological knowledge and understanding of the harsh environment in which they live and upon which their livestock production system depends.
		Locally made from the long, coarse hair of the yak, Tibetan tents are well suited to a nomadic lifestyle.
	surfart.com /Tibet-Online/Nomads/nomadcmp.htm (732 words)

	Grassland Cheese Consortium -Yak cheeses from the nomads of the Tibetan Plateau - Artisanal Cheeses from Grazed Herds.
		Grassland Cheese Consortium -Yak cheeses from the nomads of the Tibetan Plateau - Artisanal Cheeses from Grazed Herds.
		High on the Tibetan plateau, nomadic yak-herders have been grazing their semi-wild herds for 10,000 years, making theirs the world's oldest existing agricultural enterprise.
		My Tibetan friends developed more of a tolerance than a taste for cheese, with one exception: When I made a pot of yak mozzarella, just for kicks, it was a huge hit.
	www.cowsoutside.com /yak_cheese.html (1812 words)

	ScienceDaily: Just How Old Is The Tibetan Plateau?
		Geological Demolition Derby: New View On Tibetan Plateau's Rift Valleys (November 18, 2004) -- The spectacular rift valleys of the Tibetan plateau don't all run north-south as previously thought, according to new research.
		Mountainous Plateau Creates Ozone 'Halo' Around Tibet (December 8, 2005) -- Not only is the air around the world's highest mountains thin, but it's thick with ozone, says a new study from University of Toronto researchers.
		On the Earth, the lithosphere includes the crust and the uppermost layer of the mantle (the upper mantle or lower lithosphere) which is...
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2001/08/010810072336.htm (1512 words)

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