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China’s Geoclimatic Setting
© Howard R. Spendelow
Georgetown Universityrevised 08 Dec 2011
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China = rooster
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“Pan-Gallo”: the world as a giant chicken…
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Tectonic plate movement
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China’s topography
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Annual Precipitation
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rainfall distribution
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Precipitation in North China, by month
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Average Annual Temperature
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extent of loess deposits
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China’s loess plateau ( 黃土高原 )
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global loess deposits
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loess landscape, Shanxi
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extreme loess terracing
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more loess terracing…
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Yellow River
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historical shifts of the Yellow River bed (with Grand Canal)
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Wei River 渭河 (Shaanxi) filled with loess
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caves dug into a loess hillside, N. China
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digging loess as a building material, Xi’an
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“Cave” houses in a loess cliff
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terracing with loess
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Bayanbulak grasslands, Xinjiang Uygur A.R.
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Taklamakan Desert
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Li River 灕江 in Guilin 桂林 , Guangxi A.R.
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Karst formations, somewhere…
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Zhangjiajie 張家界 in the Wulingyuan 武陵園 Scenic Area, Hunan - UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1992
(photo by Adam Murray, SFS ’02)
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China’s Macroregions
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Linkages between villages and markets
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Markets in Sichuan, mid-20th century
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劇終(the end)
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residential loess caves
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Arial view of central Shanxi
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