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| High:
The team reached the highest altitude of the trip -
Tanggula Pass, 5231m
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Salt
bridge: Road work maintenance at Dabuxun
salt lake - 50km north of Golmud. Workers use salt (the
white material on trucks) to repair the roadway which
is the dry lake bed. Note the salt crystal in the foreground. |
Glacier:
Glaciers at Nachitai
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Quicklunch:
A quick lunch at road side.
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| Fossil:
Fossil hunting at Yanshiping from Jurassic limestone
and mudstone which yield braciopods and bivalves.
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Snowlotus:
Let's share the happiness and satisfaction with Dr.
Chan for his success in negotiating a good price for
the ‘snow lotus’ without suffering from the effect
of the high altitude.
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Naqu:
Horse racing held in Naqu in August is the important
festival for the gathering of Tibetan people at the
north Tibet.
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Railway:
Qinghai-Xizang Railway under construction. Bridge columns
are being built over Toutou River - one of source rivers
of the Yangtze. This section of Toutou river is situated
in a rift valley.
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| Tanggula:
Intermontane basin and Tanggula Mt in the background
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Fengfoushan:
Red beds at Fengfoushan
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Fengfoushan:
Rainbow after hailing at Fengfoushan
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Tundra:
Tundra in summer
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| Sunrise:
The first sun ray on Jurassic volcanic rocks of Kunlun
Mt.
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Namco:
Nam-Co (4718m), 70m long and 30m wide, the second largest
salt lake in China, is located in the Nyainqentanglha
mountain range.
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Nyainqentanglha:
Nyainqentanglha Mt (7111m) is the highest peak of the
mountain range.
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Malei:
Prayer flags - a worship to gods of mountains
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| Potala:
Potala Palace, Landmark of Lhasa, in the evening
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Unconformity:
Situated at 40km north-west of Lhasa is an unconformity.
Beneath the unconformity are the Cretaceous sedimentary
rocks and above it are late Cretaceous to early Tertiary
intermediate-acid volcanic rocks.
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India
plate:
Along the south band of Yarlung Zangbo river is the
Himalayan Mountains which belong to the Indian plate.
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Sheep
lake: Yamzho Yumco in Himalayan Mountains
was a tributary flowing northwest to Yarlung Zangbo
river. During Holocene, elevation of the region dammed
the river to a lake. Hydroelectric power is generated
by the 800m difference of the lake level and the river
level.
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| India
plate:
Along the south band of Yarlung Zangbo river is the
Himalayan Mountains which belong to the Indian plate.
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Ultrabasic:
South of Xigaze is Bainang village where grey-white
rodingite veins occur in serpentinized harzburgite.
This is the ultrabasic rock of the mantle material in
Xigaze ophiolite.
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Pillowlava:
Pillow lava, the upper part of the ophiolite, observed
en route from Bainang to Xigaze.
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Pillow:
A closer look at the pillow lava
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