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Purugangri Glacier
Purog Kangri is an ice sheet in the Tibetan Plateau, in Nagqu, China. It is shrinking rapidly. Location Purog Kangri was discovered by Chinese and American scientists around 1999. It has been confirmed to be the third largest ice field in the world. The other two are in the Arctic and the Antarctic. Purog Kangri is in the Nagqu prefecture-level city of Tibet, China. It is in a harsh mountain environment that is not accessible to tourists. It is about from the double lake. The Purog Kangri ice field is at at an elevation of above sea level. The ice field is the largest in the North of the Tibetan Plateau. It is made up of several ice caps with a total area of as of 2002, and a volume of about . The glacier snow line is above sea level. The ice sheet is radial, with over 50 tongues of ice of different lengths that extend from the ice sheet through wide and shallow valleys. In the areas with lower tongues there are many ice pyramids. Climate Purog Kangri is near the boundary be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tibetan Plateau
The Tibetan Plateau (, also known as the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau or the Qing–Zang Plateau () or as the Himalayan Plateau in India, is a vast elevated plateau located at the intersection of Central, South and East Asia covering most of the Tibet Autonomous Region, most of Qinghai, western half of Sichuan, Southern Gansu provinces in Western China, southern Xinjiang, Bhutan, the Indian regions of Ladakh and Lahaul and Spiti (Himachal Pradesh) as well as Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan, northwestern Nepal, eastern Tajikistan and southern Kyrgyzstan. It stretches approximately north to south and east to west. It is the world's highest and largest plateau above sea level, with an area of (about five times the size of Metropolitan France). With an average elevation exceeding and being surrounded by imposing mountain ranges that harbor the world's two highest summits, Mount Everest and K2, the Tibetan Plateau is often referred to as "the Roof of the World". The Tibetan Plateau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
