Tarim Basin


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Tarim Basin

(tä′rēm′)
An arid basin of northwest China south of the Tian Shan and north of the Kunlun Mountains. It is traversed by the Tarim River, which flows about 2,100 km (1,300 mi) eastward through the Taklamakan Desert to Lop Nur. The ancient Silk Road passed through the region.
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Ta′rim Ba′sin



n.
a region in W China between the Tien Shan and Kunlun mountain ranges. ab. 350,000 sq. mi. (906,000 sq. km).
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They increased in response to rising temperatures in the Tarim Basin of Southern Xinjiang according to a previous study [42].
More than eighty per cent of Uighurs live in the Tarim Basin that lies south-west of Xinjiang, while the remaining Uighur population in China resides in Taoyuan County located in the south-central Hunan province.
Richard Laursen summarizes the results of several dye analyses that he and his collaborators have performed on textiles from Japan, the Tarim Basin, and China to identify the major dyes used in those regions.
Originally carrying 12 BCM/y from the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang to Shanghai, its throughput was increased to 17 BCM/y through the addition of more compressors and up-grading of the industrial plant.
The Maigaiti slope is located in the northern slope zone of the southwestern depression of the Tarim Basin, where oil and gas exploration remains at a relatively low level.
Residents in Tarim Basin used to burn wood or coal for cooking and heating.
Li and colleagues hunted for this vanished carbon around northwest China's Tarim Basin. The researchers collected 170 groundwater samples, plus samples from nearby streams and irrigation channels that feed the farms that straddle the desert's perimeter.
Both of these abundances are lower than the respective values of the marine oil in the Tarim basin, in whose case the relative abundance of 1,2,5-TMNr in Nr is about 5% and that of 1,2,5,6-TeMNr in TeMNr below 10%.
The study area (Figure 1(b)) is a three-level structural unit, located at downthrown side of the boundary fault I of Tazhong Low uplift within Tarim Basin. It adjoins Khattak Uplift bounded by the boundary fault I on the western side; to the north, it is adjacent to the Shuntuoguole Low uplift.