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- noun a desert in western China
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Our results suggest that all the stabilizers exhibited good infiltration, crushing strength, and elasticity, and that they could thus be used to control damage to highways caused by blown sand in the Taklimakan Desert.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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These were sprayed onto test sandbeds in a wind tunnel and also on patch of the Taklimakan Desert, where they “produced a strong crust 0.2-0.5 cm thick.”
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Our results suggest that all the stabilizers exhibited good infiltration, crushing strength, and elasticity, and that they could thus be used to control damage to highways caused by blown sand in the Taklimakan Desert.
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These were sprayed onto test sandbeds in a wind tunnel and also on patch of the Taklimakan Desert, where they “produced a strong crust 0.2-0.5 cm thick.”
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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Bactrian camels (Camelus ferus) used to roam widely through this ecoregion, but are now extirpated within China except for one population in the southeastern part of the Taklimakan Desert.
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The former silk road oasis of Hetian perches on the edge of China's Taklimakan Desert, a gravelly wasteland of scrub and rock.
China Feels the Heat 2008
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To the south, the Tian Shan are separated from the Kunlun Mountains and the Tibetan Plateau by the broad, hyper-arid Tarim Basin and Taklimakan Desert.
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To the south, the Tian Shan are separated from the Kunlun Mountains and the Tibetan Plateau by the broad, hyper-arid Tarim Basin and Taklimakan Desert.
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The other population is found in the Taklimakan Desert.
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Partly because it is so inhospitable to humans, the Taklimakan Desert continues to support small populations of animals like wild Bactrian camels (Camelus ferus) and Asian wild asses (Equus hemionus) that have been extirpated in other parts of China.
Taklimakan desert 2007
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