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0236 Explorations in Turkestan 1903 : vol.1
トルキスタンの調査 1903年 : vol.1
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[Photo] 143 天山山脈のKok Kiya段丘 標高11,500フィート 最前面の中央にある流水は石灰岩で遮られ、単なる狭い峡谷になっている その間の砂利は、側面がひな壇状の広大な氾濫原を削っているTerraces of the Kok Kiya, on the Tian Shan Plateau, at an elevation of 11, 500 feet. In the foreground and in the middle distance the stream has been caught upon limestone and has cut merely a narrow gorge, while in the gravel between it has excavated a broad flood-plain with terraced sides.

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EXPLORATIONS IN TURKESTAN.

TERRACES AS A RESULT OF CLIMATIC CHANGES.

Let us see if the other theory, that of climate changes, is more satisfactory. Starting with a climate and topography similar to those of to-day, what would be the effect of successive epochs of glacial and non-glacial climate or of colder and warmer climate ? Judging by what has been found true in other parts of the world, the effect would be just what we find in the terraces of Central Turkestan. During the epochs of colder climate aggradation would take place in all the valleys where the streams had already attained a graded condition ; and that condition would soon be established in those valleys where the slope was relatively gentle,

Fig. I43.—Terraces of the Kok Kiya, on the Tian Shan Plateau, at an elevation of 11,500 feet. In the foreground and in the middle distance the stream has been caught upon limestone and has cut merely a narrow gorge, while in the gravel between it has excavated a broad flood-plain with terraced sides.

swing sidewise, and very broad flood-plains would be formed. When warmer conditions again prevailed the streams would once more begin to cut downward ; the few streams that had already reached grade previous to the period of aggradation

would cut into the gravel till a new grade was reached, and then, if time allowed,   i

they would broaden their flood-plains once more. Of the other streams, the   I

majority would soon cut through the gravel coating of their flood-plains and intrench themselves in the solid rock beneath. If another cold epoch ensued, the previously graded streams would begin to aggrade and would fill their valleys in the saine way as before ; the others would become graded and would open their valleys and form flood-plains once more. Thus, by a succession of alternations between

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though the streams were not previously graded. The graded streams would then