Tawan Bogd
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| Highest peak | Chüiten ( 4374 m ) | |
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Töw-Aimag ( Mongolia ), Altay in Xinjiang ( PR China ), Altai Republic ( Russia ) |
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| part of | Altai Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 9 ' N , 87 ° 49' E | |
| rock | metamorphic rock , granite | |
The Tawan Bogd ( Mongolian богд Таван , five Saints' , Russian Таван-Богдо-Ула ; Chinese 塔彎博格多 , Pinyin Tǎwān Boge Duo ) is a mountain range in southeastern Altai Mountains on the border triangle between Mongolia , China and Russia .
To the north, the Tawan Bogd drops steeply to the plateau of the Ukok plateau in Russia . To the east, the Sailjugem mountain range extends along the Russian-Mongolian border. In a south-southeast direction, the Mongolian Altai joins along the Mongolian-Chinese border. In a westerly direction, the mountain ridge of the Southern Altai runs along the Russian-Chinese border. The mountain range consists mainly of metamorphic rock and granite . The Tawan Bogd reaches a maximum height of 4,374 m in the Chüiten (previous height information was 4356 m ). 36 glaciers stretch across the mountain range, including the Potanin glacier and the Prschewalski glacier as the two largest. In the 1970s, all of these glaciers still had a total area of 160 km². The length of the Potanin Glacier was then 20 km, and the Prschewalski Glacier was 12 km. Due to climate change, these have melted significantly: the Potanin Glacier is now only 14 km in length. Dwarf birches grow at the foot of the Tawan Bogd massif . Above this there are alpine vegetation, mountain tundra and gravel areas. Larch forests grow in the southern river valleys of Chowd Gol and Kanas .
summit
The five most important peaks in the Tawan Bogd massif are:
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- Chüiten ( Nairamdan ) ( 4374 m ) ( ⊙ ), Mongolia / China
- Nairamdal ( 4082 m ) ( ⊙ ), Mongolia / China / Russia
- Bürged ( 4068 m )
- Malchin ( 4050 m ) ( ⊙ ), Mongolia / Russia
- Olgii ( 4050 m )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Article Tawan Bogd in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
- ↑ Kargel, Jeffrey Stuart, Global Land Ice Measurements from Space, Springer-Praxis series in geophysics, Springer 2014, ISBN 3-540-79818-8 , page 481 ff.