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0047 Explorations in Turkestan : Expedition of 1904 : vol.2
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[Figure] 444 Terraces of the Kizil Su in Karategin.

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doi: 10.20676/00000178
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As the first-stage topography has been uplifted and dissected by this great gorge and all its tributary systems to a depth of from 3,000 to 4,000 feet, only limited areas of its original slopes now remain. It is to be inferred from a con-formity of grade-plains and flat-topped spurs flanking the Peter-the-Great Range and dissected remnants of a one-time half-peneplained belt of the Alai Mountains north. When uplift began, it was by no means a peneplain, but rather a mature topography grading into the wide, shallow valley of the Kizil Su and peaked here