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Rural landscape of the Chengdu plain. The Chengdu Plain (Chinese: 成都平原; pinyin: Chéngdū Píngyuán), referred to in Sichuanese as the Western Sichuan Plain (Chinese: 川西坝子; Sichuanese Pinyin: Cuan 1 xi 1 Ba 4 zi 3), is an alluvial plain located in the western part of the Sichuan Basin [1] in southwestern China.
The Times Atlas of World History is a historical atlas first published by Times Books Limited, then a subsidiary of Times Newspapers Ltd and later a branch of Collins Bartholomew, which is a subsidiary of HarperCollins, and which in the latest editions has changed names to become The Times Complete History of the World. The first two editions ...
Till plains, plain of glacial till that form when a sheet of ice becomes detached from the main body of a glacier and melts in place depositing the sediments it carries. Till plains are composed of unsorted material (till) of all sizes. Lacustrine plains, plains that originally formed in a lacustrine environment, that is, as the bed of a lake. [11]
In his 1992 article on the history of historical atlases, Black discussed the Eurocentrism of past efforts, the balance between text, images, and maps, the desirable level of detail, and the practical difficulties in compiling such atlases, which were time-consuming and expensive to produce, particularly if maps had to be created from scratch using primary sources and the atlas had a large ...
100 Diagrams That Changed The World: From The Earliest Cave Paintings to the Innovation of the iPod is a book by journalist Scott Christianson. The book compiles 1000 diagrams throughout history considered by the author to be particularly influential.
The Temple of Marquis Wu of Wuzhang Plains dedicated to Zhuge Liang. The Wuzhang Plains (五丈原) are plateaus near the Wei River in China. They are now in the Shaanxi province, 56 kilometres from Baoji. The name "Wuzhang" means "five zhang", where zhang (丈) is a Chinese unit of measurement which converts to 3⅓ metre.