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Untitled[edit]

"The Tarim Basin is the largest basin in the world" -- the largest water drainage basin (which seems unlikely, compared to those in Australia and central Asia), or the largest topographical basin?

Ancient Lake[edit]

Something should be said about this being an ancient lake, that was at least seasonal into the 1st millenium BC (and possibly later) and that the climate has become progressively more arid over the last several thousand years, until is it now a desert. see Lop Nur

The term "Chinese Turkestan" is also encountered in the literature to describe the region. --FourthAve 10:34, 8 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Geology[edit]

"The Tarim Basin is the remains of an ancient microcontinent that amalgamated with the growing Eurasian continent during the Carboniferous to Permian." Within the framework of Plate Tectonics, this sounds unbelievable on three accounts: (1) How can a continent *grow*? (2) How can it *amalgamate* with another one, albeit only a "microcontinent"? (3) How come the amalgamated component is stuck in the middle of the other one? Been dropped there by some UFO? Might be the geological framework needs an update ... --Lumi71 (talk) 22:33, 10 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not one of the largest[edit]

Wrt: The Tarim Basin is one of the largest endorheic basins in the world, occupying an area of more than 400,000 km². Yes that is big, but there are a significant number of larger endorheic basins, such as Okavango Basin (721,000 km²), Lake Eyre Basin (1,200,000 km²), Caspian Sea Basin (3,626,000 km²), Great Basin (520,000 km²), and although I don't have areas stats for the Lake Chad Basin or the Aral Sea Basin, they are clearly enormous. And there are many others larger than the Tarim Basin (see List of endorheic basins). So with this in mind I'm going to change "one of the largest" to simply "a large". Pfly (talk) 07:48, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Lost and found[edit]

In the article, chapter History, was hidden text:

Cities along each branch (from west to east) include:

Northern Silk Road: Aksu (41°10′N 80°15′E / 41.167°N 80.250°E / 41.167; 80.250), Kucha (41°39′N 82°54′E / 41.650°N 82.900°E / 41.650; 82.900), Korla (41°39′N 86°08′E / 41.650°N 86.133°E / 41.650; 86.133), Turpan (42°59′N 89°11′E / 42.983°N 89.183°E / 42.983; 89.183), Loulan (40°55′N 89°9′E / 40.917°N 89.150°E / 40.917; 89.150),"middle route", deserted from the 6th century)
Southern Silk Road: Yarkand (37°52′N 77°24′E / 37.867°N 77.400°E / 37.867; 77.400), Pishan (37°37′N 78°18′E / 37.617°N 78.300°E / 37.617; 78.300), Khotan (37°6′N 80°1′E / 37.100°N 80.017°E / 37.100; 80.017)

These entries (from user:Dbachmann, now on wikibreak) are already integrated into the text (and disambiguated), but not the coordinates. The coordinates are the same as on the destination pages of the links, but not in the case of:

Loulan (hidden text:40°55′N 89°9′E / 40.917°N 89.150°E / 40.917; 89.150, linked page Loulan Kingdom: 40°31′39.48″N 89°50′26.32″E / 40.5276333°N 89.8406444°E / 40.5276333; 89.8406444), see also de:Loulan (40°31′N 89°55′E / 40.517°N 89.917°E / 40.517; 89.917) and [1] (40°9′5″N 89°5′2″E / 40.15139°N 89.08389°E / 40.15139; 89.08389)
Yarkant (town) (hidden text:37°52′N 77°24′E / 37.867°N 77.400°E / 37.867; 77.400, linked page Yarkant County: 38°25′N 77°15′E / 38.417°N 77.250°E / 38.417; 77.250)

Funny, the Loulan ruins seem to be hopping around, maybe they are too radioactive :) -- Tomdo08 (talk) 23:46, 17 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps so, but editor Dbachmann is a trustworthy wikipedia editor and I'm sure there was no intent to mislead at all. MarmadukePercy (talk) 00:02, 18 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I think, you misread me: The hidden text was from editor Dbachmann, somebody else hid it. I cited it, because I found it to be valuable. -- Tomdo08 (talk) 02:55, 18 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Silk Road is jumbled[edit]

The current text in the article completely jumbles the Silk Road. I am basing my (coming) edits on the hidden text (see previous Chapter "Lost and Found"), the articles Silk Road, de:Seidenstraße, Northern Silk Road, all linked maps, Diercke Weltatlas (1976) and all wikipedia articles on relevant places I could find. Unfortunately none of the descriptions is complete by itself, but all taken together the network becomes clear. -- Tomdo08 (talk) 02:56, 18 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I will remove following reference from this article (It is not germane to the article and it is misrepresented):

Silk Road, North China, C.Michael Hogan, the Megalithic Portal, ed. Andy Burnham

-- Tomdo08 (talk) 03:58, 18 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The description of the routes is now (re)corrected and completed. Also the lists of stops on the three relevant routes are now completed (I hope). I also tried to link to the wikipedia pages where the historic places are described best, but those linked pages are a bit tangled themself. Also there is the naming issue: The lists have to designate the actual historic stops and they should use the names which are used by historians on the Silk Route topic; I did my best (for the time being), but I am not expert enough for that. So there is still something to be done. -- Tomdo08 (talk) 12:35, 18 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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History and chronology very incomplete and disorganized.[edit]

The history section seems to have the chronological order jumbled at points, while leaving multi-hundred year gaps without even clearly saying who controlled the area at the time. It even goes from 1006 to 1884 with only mentioning in the intervening time a vague mention of Naqshbandi Sufi influence in the seventeenth century, then finishing by saying in 1884 it was unified under Qing rule with no details other than a list of names that parts of it were previously called or ruled by with no dates. 2600:100A:B12B:FCBB:85EE:A4D8:F1F1:D0EA (talk) 19:09, 21 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Uyghur Khaganate genetic study[edit]

The source says " Most Uyghur-period individuals exhibit a high but variable degree of west Eurasian ancestry"

Having high west Eurasian dos not mean indicate they were predominantly or mostly West Eurasian. Gemmaso (talk) 17:48, 26 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Could do with descriptions of biomes/flora and fauna/biodiversity[edit]

given it's a large and unique global biome 210.87.42.51 (talk) 01:00, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]