• coast of Laurentia. A revised "Missing-link" model is proposed in which Tarim Block serves as an extended or alternative missing-link between Australia and...
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    Tarim Block can be divided into three parts the North Tarim, South Tarim and Central Tarim terrane. Between 2.80 and 2.57 billion years ago the Tarim...
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    The Tarim River (Chinese: 塔里木河; pinyin: Tǎlǐmù Hé; Uyghur: تارىم دەرياسى, romanized: Tarim deryasi), known in Sanskrit as the Śītā, is an endorheic river...
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    blocks. While the South China-Annamia continent was the newest addition to the Asian microcontinents, it was not the first. North China and the Tarim...
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    desert in Southwestern Xinjiang in Northwest China. Located inside the Tarim Basin in Southern Xinjiang, it is bounded by the Kunlun Mountains to the...
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    missing biozones or correlates events happening in a neighbouring block (like Tarim block). The carbonate sequence can also be of evolutionary significance...
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    China Block is one of the Precambrian continental blocks in China. It is traditionally divided into the Yangtze Block in the NW and the Cathaysia Block in...
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    The Tarim Basin deciduous forests and steppe is a temperate broadleaf and mixed forests ecoregion in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of western...
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    southern suture marks the collision of a passive margin at the north of the Tarim block and an active continental margin; subduction under the latter was to...
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  • anomaly in southern Tarim may be associated with the volcanism at Ashikule, and a seismically imaged gap between the Tarim block and the Indian Plate...
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