Gobi desert

One of the world’s great deserts the Gobi is locate in central Asia encompassing more than 500,000 square miles in Mongolia and northern China. The term “gobi” in the Mongolian and Manchu languages is defined as vast, flat areas of Mongolian Plateau where the ground is covered with coarse substance and the human population is scarce.

Every spring dust from the Gobi cover eastern China, Korea and Japan and may extend at times around the world. The Gobi desert is a vast basin with an average altitude of about 3,000 feet, surrounded by mountains that rise above 6,000 feet.

The deserts of Central Asia include mountains that gently merge with stony slopes, and gravely sandy plains producing the flat, pebbly-rocky plains known as Gobi desert.

Within the Gobi are many smaller shallow basins termed tala by the Mongols. Numerous streams run down the mountain ranges, mainly in the spring and disappear in the lower tala of the Gobi.

Vegetation in Gobi deserts depends on texture of sandy-pebbly plains (which is responsible for the retention of moisture), basic material piedmont, ambient temperatures and amount of precipitation.

The Gobi has yielded many archeological, paleontological, and geological finds, including early stone implements, dinosaurs eggs and mineral deposits and precious stones including turquoise and jasper.
Gobi desert