Jartai
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- A town in Alxa Left, Alxa, Inner Mongolia, in northern China.
- 1987, “Brief Description of the Main Tectonic Units of China”, in Geotectonic Evolution of China[1], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 51:
- Here the Alxa Platform Uplift needs a special explanation. Some Chinese geologists consider that it is not a platform but a part of a Paleozoic geosyncline. Here we still believe that it represents a platform uplift. This is supported by the following lines of evidence:[...](4) there occurs the high-grade metamorphic Alxa Group north of Jartai, which is intruded by 1365-my-old gabbro and overlain by the Late Proterozoic metamorphic rock series; and[...]
- 1993 August, Miao Wang, Shi Bao Xiu, edited by Tu Nai Hsien, From the Pamirs to Beijing: Tracing Marco Polo's Northern Route[2], Hong Kong: HK China Tourism Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 101, 102:
- Going to Jartai by Mistake
[...]At last, we saw lights up ahead and stopped our car to make inquiries. We were told that in fact this was not Linhe but Jartai, a name entirely unfamiliar to us.[...]
Jartai, the site of China's first mechanized saltworks, is not a big town, but all its hotels were packed with tourists.
- 2000 December, Micael C. Runnström, “Is Northern China Winning the Battle against Desertification?”, in AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment[3], volume 29, number 8, , →ISSN, →OCLC, page 471:
- To evaluate the stability of the NOAA Pathfinder data set, a window containing mobile sand dunes without vegetation—visited during fieldwork in September 1995—was chosen north of Jartai in the Ulan Buh Desert (Eval-site in Fig. 9).
- 2021 April 17, “Xinhua Photos of the Day (April 17)”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency[4], archived from the original on 17 April 2021:
- In this aerial photo taken on April 16, 2021, workers water sacsaoul trees in Gobi desert areas around Jartai Township of Araxan Left Banner, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
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- A lake in Alxa Left, Alxa, Inner Mongolia, in northern China.
- [1920, “GEOGRAPHY PHYSICAL AND POLITICAL”, in G. W. Prothero, editor, Mongolia (Handbooks Prepared under the Direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office)[5], number 68, London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, →OCLC, page 10:
- In Alashan there are salt lakes here and there, Charatai-Dabasu being 33 miles round, and encrusted with a layer of fine salt, 2 to 6 ft. thick.]
- [1927, Henry H. Howorth, “A GENERAL VIEW OF THE GEOGRAPHY, ETHNOGRAPHY, AND BIOLOGY OF CENTRAL ASIA”, in History of the Mongols[6], volume IV, Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 12:
- Notable lakes in the Mongolian land are[...]These are salt lakes. Freshwater ones are the Charatai Dabuson in Alashan and the Dabasana Nor in the Ortus country.]
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