Scientific Results of a Journey in Central Asia, 1899-1902 : vol.3 / Page 765 (Color Image)

0765	Scientific Results of a Journey in Central Asia, 1899-1902 : vol.3

OVER THE ARKA-TAGH FROM KAPA.

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of suitable spurs small dunes, r m. at the highest, have not infrequently been formed. They owe their origin to the prevailing westerly wind, but never get an opportunity to grow to a considerable height. The existing circumstances of conformation and relief point to the fact, that they have now certainly reached their greatest possible

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dimensions. If by any chance they do succeed in rising above their present altitude, the next hard wind will certainly reduce them to their normal size. The sand-accumulations would appear to be characteristic of the transitional country between the peripheral regions and the plateau-land both in Tibet and in Pamir; for I observed a similar phenomenon in the eastern Pamir at Naghara-kum, west of the Sarik-kol

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