Li, Gang Abdrakhmatov, Kanatbek 2008. Wang, Jian Click Here for a Full Screen Map. [5], The Shiji mentions the "Qilian mountains" together with Dunhuang in relation to the homeland of the Yuezhi. Regional geologic map of the central Qilian Shan based on a compilation of Gansu Geological Bureau (1989), Qinghai BGMR (1991), Pan et al. Teleport. Shroder, John F. ], [Climatic records since the Little Ice Age from the Dunde Ice Cap. Ding, Lianfu ], [Mass balance of glaciers in Qilian Mountains. The climate driven erosion defeated the tectonic thickening in the southern Qilian Shan prior to the Miocene and caused the Qilian Shan wedge to stall. Liu, Shiyin Liu, Shiyin It is concluded that the Haiyuan Fault plays a crucial role not only in the lateral growth of the Tibetan Plateau but also in the uplift of the Qilian Shan, which led to the river system reorganization. Li, Jing By continuing you agree to the use of cookies. Based on aerial photographs, topographical maps and the Landsat-5 image data, we have analyzed fluctuations of glaciers in the western Qilian Shan, north-west China, from the Little Ice Age (LIA) to 1990. for this article. The region has many glaciers, the largest of which is the Touming Mengke. We use cookies to help provide and enhance our service and tailor content and ads. Qilian Shan from Mapcarta, the free map. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2020.104128. 2010. Vol. Liu, Shiyin Shangguan, Donghui I was there for geology, but many Chinese people see the region as a place to explore on holiday. Zhang, Yichi The Qilian Shan, at the northeastern frontier of the Tibetan Plateau, is a key area for studying the expansion mechanism of the Tibetan Plateau. Thrusting in the southern Qilian Shan initiated during the Paleogene. We use cookies to help provide and enhance our service and tailor content and ads. Ninglian, Wang The Qilian Shan fold-and-thrust belt is used here as a case study for the use of tectonic geomorphology to study continental scale processes. Glacier changes since the Little Ice Age maximum in the western Qilian Shan, northwest China, and consequences of glacier runoff for water supply, COPYRIGHT: © International Glaciological Society 2003. Mount Qilian. View all Google Scholar citations and Other Ranges: To go to pages for other ranges either click on the map above, or on range names in the hierarchy snapshot below, which show the parent, siblings, and children of the Qilian Shan. [Report of the investigation of modern glaciers in the Qilian Mts. Elevation is the altitude of a place above sea level. This completely reconfigured the flow direction of the rivers within the Qilian Shan Range: from N-S rivers that flowed into the Hexi Corridor and Qaidam Basin, to today's W-E rivers flowing into the Tarim Basin and Longxi Basin, along a series of NW-trending linear thrust-folds belt, aligned in an en echelon pattern along the trace of the Haiyuan Fault on the north and south. Liu, Shiyin This study highlights the significant influence of previously unconsidered regional climate in upward and outward growth in the northern Tibetan plateau. Zhang, Yong 2006. [2] These glaciers have undergone acceleration in their melting in recent decades. [8] Sanping Chen (1998) suggested that 昊天 hàotiān, 祁連 qílián, and 赫連 Hèlián were all cognates and descended from multisyllabic Proto-Sinitic *gh?klien.[9].