Hunshandak desert
Hunshandake sandland
浑善达克 沙地
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People's Republic of China Inner Mongolia |
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part of | Gobi desert | |
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Coordinates | 43 ° 0 ′ N , 115 ° 0 ′ E | |
rock | Sand dunes | |
surface | (1,970) 20,850 km 2 .
(1,980) 23,200 km 2 . |
The Hunshandak Desert or Hunshandake Desert ( Chinese 混 善 达克 沙漠 , Pinyin Hunshandake Shamo or 混 善 达克沙 地 , Hunshandake Shadi ), also known as the Little Tengger Desert ( 小 腾 格里 沙漠 , Xiao Tenggeli Shamo ), is a desert in the south of the Xilin Gol Federation of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China , about 180 km from Beijing. As part of an environmental protection program, a four hundred kilometer long and one to ten kilometer wide strip of trees, bushes and grass has been created on the southern edge of the desert.
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- ↑ Jin, HeLing, LiangYing Sun, and Zhong Sun. "Millennial-scale evolution of Hunshandake Desert and climate change during the Holocene in Inner Mongolia, northern China." Sciences in Cold and Arid Regions 2.6 (2010): 505-513. ( PDF )
- ↑ a b c Kang, Xiang-wu1, et al. "Research on Spatio-Temporal Change of Sandy Desertification in Hunshandake." Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 23.1 (2009): 1-6. ( PDF )
- ↑ 丁国栋, et al. "浑善达克 沙地 草场 资源 评价 与 载畜量 研究." 生态学 杂志 24.9 (2005): 1038-1042. ( PDF )
- ↑ Gong, Zhijun, et al. "Environmental changes in Hunshandake (Otindag) sandy land revealed by optical dating and multi-proxy study of dune sands." Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 76 (2013): 30-36. ( PDF )
- ↑ http://german.cri.cn/401/2008/04/22/1@92277.htm