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Taklimakan

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Ta·kli·ma·kan also Ta·kla·ma·kan  (täkl-m-kän)
A desert of western China between the Tian Shan and the Kunlun Mountains.
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18 Dust Ball A July study reported that particles from a huge dust storm in China's Taklimakan desert in 2007 circled the globe in less than 13 days, suggesting planet-wide impacts from regional desertification.
Updates by World Watch
A wind storm that ripped across western China's Taklimakan desert kicked up hundreds of thousands of tonnes of dust that high-altitude winds then carried around the world in less than two weeks, a study says.
Massive dust storm in China circled the world in 13 days: study by AFP / AFP Asian Edition
They crossed a military zone near a nuclear test site in the Taklimakan desert, where they had to bed down secretly in a hotel that was forbidden to foreigners.
Faces in a billion by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
 
 
 
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