 NASA satellite image of the southern area of Tibetan Plateau The Tibetan Plateau or Chang Tang, also known as the Qinghai-Tibetan (Qingzang) Plateau, is a vast, elevated plateau in Central Asia covering most of the Tibet Autonomous Region and Qinghai Province. It occupies an area of around 1,000 by 2,500 kilometers, and has an average elevation of over 4,300 meters. Called "the roof of the world," it is the highest and biggest plateau in the world, with an area of 2.5 million square kilometers (well over three times the size of Texas or France)[1]. 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. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (864x458, 320 KB)The relief of the Tibetan Plateau with administrative region boundaries within China shown (Self-drawn by Alan Mak based on a world map in Wikimedia Commons) The map is a bit off. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (864x458, 320 KB)The relief of the Tibetan Plateau with administrative region boundaries within China shown (Self-drawn by Alan Mak based on a world map in Wikimedia Commons) The map is a bit off. ...
The Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) (Tibetan: བོད་རང་སà¾à¾±à½¼à½„་ལྗོངས་; Wylie: Bod-rang-skyong-ljongs; Simplified Chinese: 西è—自治区; Traditional Chinese: 西è—自治å€; Pinyin: XÄ«zà ng ZìzhìqÅ«), is a province-level autonomous region of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ...
Qinghai (Chinese: 青海; pinyin: Qīnghǎi; Wade-Giles: Ching-hai; Postal System Pinyin: Tsinghai) is a province of the Peoples Republic of China, named after the enormous Qinghai Lake (Koko Nor). ...
Sichuan (Chinese: 四川; pinyin: Sìchuān; Wade-Giles: Ssu-ch`uan; non-standard transliteration: Szechwan) is a province in central-western China with its capital at Chengdu. ...
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In geology and earth science, a plateau, also called a tableland, is an area of highland, usually consisting of relatively flat open country if the uplift was recent in geologic history. ...
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The Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) (Tibetan: བོད་རང་སà¾à¾±à½¼à½„་ལྗོངས་; Wylie: Bod-rang-skyong-ljongs; Simplified Chinese: 西è—自治区; Traditional Chinese: 西è—自治å€; Pinyin: XÄ«zà ng ZìzhìqÅ«), is a province-level autonomous region of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ...
Qinghai (Chinese: 青海; pinyin: Qīnghǎi; Wade-Giles: Ching-hai; Postal System Pinyin: Tsinghai) is a province of the Peoples Republic of China, named after the enormous Qinghai Lake (Koko Nor). ...
In geology and earth science, a plateau, also called a tableland, is an area of highland, usually consisting of relatively flat open country if the uplift was recent in geologic history. ...
Official language(s) See: Languages of Texas Capital Largest city Austin Houston Area Ranked 2nd - Total 268,581 sq. ...
The Indo-Australian plate is shown in dull orange on this map. ...
The Eurasian plate, shown in green The Eurasian Plate is a tectonic plate covering Eurasia (a landmass consisting of the continents Europe and Asia) except that it does not cover the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian subcontinent, and the area east of the Verkhoyansk Range in East Siberia. ...
The tectonic plates of the world were mapped in the second half of the 20th century. ...
The Cenozoic Era (sen-oh-ZOH-ik; sometimes Caenozoic Era in the United Kingdom) meaning new life (Greek kainos = new + zoe = life) is the most recent of the three classic geological eras. ...
The plateau is mainly a high-altitude arid steppe interspersed with mountain ranges and large brackish lakes. Annual precipitation ranges from 100mm to 300mm and fails mainly as hailstorms.[2] The southern and eastern edges of the steppe have grasslands which can sustainably support populations of nomadic herdsmen, although frost occurs for six months of the year. Proceeding to the north and northwest, the plateau becomes progressively higher, colder and drier, until reaching the remote Kekexili region in the northwestern part of the plateau. Here the average altitude exceeds 5,000 meters (16,500 feet), the air contains only 60% of the oxygen of sea level, and year-round temperatures average -4°C, dipping to -40°C in winter.[3] Not surprisingly, the Kekexili region is the least populated region in Asia, and the third least populated area in the world after Antarctica and northern Greenland. A steppe in Western Kazakhstan in early spring In physical geography, a steppe (Russian Ñтепь or step and pronounced in English as step) is a plain without trees (apart from those near rivers and lakes); it is similar to a prairie, although a prairie is generally considered as being dominated by...
Hailstorm A hailstorm is a meteorological event, being a storm in which a large amount of hail falls. ...
Kazakh nomads in the steppes of the Russian Empire, ca. ...
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This article is about the region Kekexili (Hoh Xil). ...
The Chang Tang is bordered to the northwest by the Kunlun Range which separate it from the Tarim Basin, and to the northwest by the Qilian Range which separates the plateau from the Gobi Desert. In the south the plataeu is delineated by the Yarlung Zangpo river valley which flows along the base of the Himalayas. To the east and southeast the plateau gives way to the forested gorge and ridge geography of the mountain headwaters of the Salween, Mekong, and Yangtze rivers in western Sichuan. In the west it is embraced by the curve of the rugged Karakoram range of northern Kashmir. Region containing Kunlun Mountains Karakash River in the Western Kunlun Shan, seen from the Tibet-Xinjiang highway Peak in Kunlun range View of Western Kunlun Shan from the Tibet-Xinjiang highway The Kunlun mountain range (Simplified Chinese: 昆仑山; Traditional Chinese: 崑崙山; Pinyin: KÅ«nlún ShÄn) is one of the longest...
Taklamakan Desert in the Tarim Basin. ...
The Gobi (Mongolian Говь, Chinese 戈å£; pinyin gÄ“ bì) is a large desert region in northern China and southern Mongolia. ...
The Salween River (also spelt Salwin, a. ...
View of the Mekong before the sunset The Mekong is one of the worlds major rivers. ...
Length 6,380 km Elevation of the source ? m Average discharge 31,900 m³/s Area watershed 1,800,000 km² Origin Qinghai Province and Tibet Mouth East China Sea Basin countries China The Chang Jiang (Simplified Chinese: 长江; Traditional Chinese: 長江; pinyin: Cháng Jiāng; Wade-Giles: Chang Chiang...
Sichuan (Chinese: å››å·; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Ssu-ch`uan; Postal Pinyin: Szechwan and Szechuan) is a province in central-western China with its capital at Chengdu. ...
Located in the mountainous regions of Gilgit, Ladakh & Baltistan, Gilgit and Baltistan are in Pakistan, the Karakoram is one of the great Himalayan mountain ranges, with many of the highest and most daunting peaks of the world. ...
Shown in green is the Kashmiri region under Pakistani control. ...
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. The mountains block the rain from going north which makes India wet with the monsoons, and creates the desert areas to north. Variations in CO2, temperature and dust from the Vostok ice core over the last 400 000 years Climate change refers to the variation in the Earths global climate or regional climates over time. ...
Monsoon in the Vindhya, a mountain chain in central India A monsoon is a (wind) pattern that reverses direction on a seasonal basis. ...
Rivers
Several of the world's longest rivers originate on the Tibetan Plateau: Between them, these rivers carry 25% of the world's soil erosion to the sea. Afternoon light on the jagged grey mountains rising from the Yangtze River gorge The Yangtze River or Chang Jiang is the longest river in Asia and the third longest in the world after the Amazon in South America and the Nile in Africa. ...
For other Yellow Rivers, see Yellow River (disambiguation). ...
The Indus River in Northern Areas of Pakistan, near the rock Aornus. ...
The Ganges River (Ganga in Indian languages; Ganges is the Latin form) (Devanagari गंगा) is the major river of northern India and Bangladesh. ...
The Brahmaputra is one of the major rivers of Asia. ...
View of the Mekong before the sunset The Mekong is one of the worlds major rivers. ...
The Ayeyarwady River (Burmese: ; formerly known as the Irrawaddy River) flows through the centre of Myanmar (formerly Burma). ...
Severe soil erosion in a wheat field near Washington State University, USA. Erosion is the displacement of solids (soil, mud, rock, and so forth) by the agents of wind, water, ice, or movement in response to gravity. ...
Lakes Qinghai Lake from space, November 1994 Qinghai Lake or Lake Kokonor (Tibetan: mtsho khri shor rgyal mo and mtsho sngon po; The Blue Sea, Mongolian: Хөхнуур [Höhnuur], []; Chinese: é’æµ·æ¹–;, pinyin: QÄ«nghÇŽi Hú) is the largest and highest lake in China. ...
Pastoral nomads camping near Namtso (2005) Namtso (Nam Tso, Nam Co; 30°42′ N 90°33′ E) is a mountain lake in central Tibet. ...
Satellite picture of Dagze Co. ...
Lake Yamzho Yumco (at the top) and Lake Puma Yumco from space, November 1997 Lake Yamzho Yumco is a lake located on the southern Tibetan Plateau (28°56′ N 90°41′ E) which is over 72 km (45 miles) long. ...
Lake Puma Yumco (centre) and Lake Yamzho Yumco from space, November 1997 Lake Puma Yumco is a lake located on the southern Tibetan Plateau (28°34′ N 90°25′ E). ...
Lake Paiku from space, May 1997 Lake Paiku is located on the Tibetan Plateau, “The Roof of the Worldâ€, at 4591 meters (15070 feet) (28°55′ N 85°35′ E). ...
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See also The geography of historical Tibet Tibet, located in central Asia, is a region in Asia which is currently, for the most part, part of China. ...
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