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Engineers have built roads to carry oil through the Taklimakan, a desert where the dunes encroach so rapidly that guards have to be posted every 5 kilometers to maintain the 400-kilometer rose-willow defense line against the sands.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Engineers have built roads to carry oil through the Taklimakan, a desert where the dunes encroach so rapidly that guards have to be posted every 5 kilometers to maintain the 400-kilometer rose-willow defense line against the sands.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Engineers have built roads to carry oil through the Taklimakan, a desert where the dunes encroach so rapidly that guards have to be posted every 5 kilometers to maintain the 400-kilometer rose-willow defense line against the sands.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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This desert consists of only about 5 percent shifting dunes, compared with the Taklimakan of the Tarim Basin where 85 percent of the area consists of shifting dunes.
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Another from the USGS Landsat Project: “A vast alluvial fan blossoms across the desolate landscape between the Kunlun and Altun mountain ranges that form the southern border of the Taklimakan Desert in China's XinJiang Province.”
Alluvial Fan 2006
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Another from the USGS Landsat Project: “A vast alluvial fan blossoms across the desolate landscape between the Kunlun and Altun mountain ranges that form the southern border of the Taklimakan Desert in China's XinJiang Province.”
Archive 2006-02-01 2006
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The caption by National Geographic reads: A truck travels along the highway leading to the Taklimakan oil field in the Xinjiang region.
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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The Taklimakan is China's largest, driest, and warmest desert.
Taklimakan desert 2007
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Unusable as farmland for humans, the Taklimakan desert remains very much intact, although a history of nuclear testing in Lop Nor represents a considerable threat.
Taklimakan desert 2007
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The Taklimakan is also known as one of the world's largest shifting-sand deserts.
Taklimakan desert 2007
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