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The Tarim Basin is an endorheic basin in Xinjiang, Northwestern China occupying an area of about 888,000 km 2 ... Geology. NASA landsat photo of the Tarim Basin.
The Taklamakan Desert (/ ˌ t æ k l ə m ə ˈ k æ n / TAK-lə-mə-KAN) is a desert in northwest China's Xinjiang region.Located inside the Tarim Basin in Southern Xinjiang, it is bounded by the Kunlun Mountains to the south, the Pamir Mountains to the west, the Tian Shan range to the north, and the Gobi Desert to the east.
The Tarim River (Chinese: 塔里木河; pinyin: Tǎlǐmù Hé; Uyghur: تارىم دەرياسى, romanized: Tarim deryasi), known in Sanskrit as the Śītā, [2] is an endorheic river in Xinjiang, China. It is the principal river of the Tarim Basin, a desert region of Central Asia between the Tian Shan and Kunlun Mountains.
Lop Nur or Lop Nor (Oirat: ᠯᠣ᠊ᠫ ᠨᡇᡇᠷ, romanized: Lob nuur, from an Oirat Mongolic name meaning "Lop Lake", where "Lop" is a toponym of unknown origin [1]) is a now largely dried-up salt lake formerly located within the Lop Depression in the eastern fringe of the Tarim Basin in the southeastern portion of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, northwestern China, between the Taklamakan ...
The exact definition of the Kunlun Mountains varies over time. Older sources used Kunlun to mean the mountain belt that runs across the center of China, [3] that is, Altyn Tagh along with the Qilian and Qin Mountains. Recent sources [4] have the Kunlun range forming most of the south side of the Tarim Basin and then continuing east, south of ...
PetroChina (PTR) intends to achieve 30 million tons of oil equivalent production per annum from the Tarim Basin by 2020.
The Tarim Basin is a desert basin lying in westernmost China. The basin is surrounded by high mountains – the Kunlun Mountains to the south, which form the northern edge of the Tibetan Plateau; the Pamir Mountains to the west; and the Tian Shan to the north. The basin is arid, but the surrounding mountains receive considerable rainfall and snow.
Altyn-Tagh (also Lower Mountains or Altyn ) [nb 1] is a mountain range in Northwestern China that separates the Eastern Tarim Basin from the Tibetan Plateau.The western third is in Xinjiang while the eastern part forms the border between Qinghai to the south and Xinjiang and Gansu to the north.