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