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0067 Explorations in Turkestan : Expedition of 1904 : vol.2
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[Photo] 463 Terraces of Markan Su.
[Figure] 464 Deflated Silts and Residual Sand-dunes (Tarim).

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source of the red silts and conglomerates composing the more recently dissected
piedmont and are together with them the source of materials laid down on the
oasis playas and piedmonts of to-day. Continuing the journey into the mountains
there were seen remnants of a high-uplifted and much-dissected topography of
mature form and doubtless corresponding to the dissected piedmont derived from
them. This topography, none of which may be termed a peneplain, but which
nevertheless conforms to that found on the border ranges of Pamir, is doubtless an
equivalent of the mature stage found by Davis in the Tian Shan and Bailey Willis
in Central China.
Such in general are the great features of Western Tarim. Yet one character-
istic of importance should be considered. We have seen how a wide margin of