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| The Taklimakan Desert, one of the seven vast deserts in the world,is
located in |
| the center part of the Tarim Basin lying south of the Tianshan Mountains |
| in Xinjiang,with a desert area of 337,600 square kilometers. The desert is
about |
| 1000 meters above sea level,and far away from the oceans, Surrounded by |
| tall mountains,which block the moist current from the
oceans,the Takelimakan |
| Desert is a typical inland desert in the temperature zone.The climate here |
| is extremly dry.It has moved southwards nearly 100 kilometers in the past |
| one thousand years,many new fams and towns,such as Arlar,Tashidian, |
| ,have been opened and set up there.Under the desert there is sea of
petroleum |
| and mineral deposits of Uranium,gold,copper,iron,Limestone and nitrate. |
| All sorts of animals newly found in the Lop nur area add up to 120 kinds. |
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