The Central Tian-Shan Mountains 1902-1903 |
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Alpine meadows altitude argillaceous slates ascent basin Bayumkol valley Bedel carboniferous Central Tian-Shan conglomerates crests crossed crystalline debouches deposits diabasic east enclosing expedition extensive farther foot forty-verst map glacial gneiss gorge granite head height Herr Keidel hitherto Inylchek glacier Inylchek valley Issyk Kul Janart Karakol Kashgar Kayndy valley Khan-Tengri Kirghiz Kukurtuk Kum-aryk lake lateral valley left bank limestones loess lower course main glacier main valley marble masses miles moraine débris morainic drift Mount Nicholas mountain chain mountain range Musart valley Mushketoff glacier narrow Narynkol nevé northern observations old morainic peaks phyllitic plateau rampart ravine reached region ridge right bank river rocks rocky route Russian Geographical Society Sabavchy Saikal valley sandstones Sary-jass valley schists Semenoff glacier side-valleys slates slope snow snowy southern steep strata stream stretches summit Taranchi Tekes Tengri terminal moraine terraces tertiary transverse valleys traversed Tys-ashu upper course versts vide walls
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Page 283 - Brahmawas presuppose a full knowledge of the course of sacrificial performance, and notice only such points as afford an opportunity for dogmatic and symbolic explanations, or seem to call for some authoritative decision to guard them against what were considered as heretical practices. In order to enable the reader to follow the course of the performance with something like completeness, I have supplied in my notes the chief details from Katyayana's Kalpa-sutras. That not a few of these details...
Page 209 - It was now quite clear, that the culminating' eminence of the whole Tian-Shan does not stand in the main watershed, and is not a nucleus of converging ranges...
Page 250 - ... into two branches, one coming from the south, the other from the south-west. One of these has its source on the neve...
Page 277 - Only on one point my scientific conviction is already settled once for all— namely, that for the Tian-Shan also an ice age has to be accepted.
Page 26 - Owing to the fact that the mountain has no rival and overtops the highest summits of all the neighbouring ranges by over 8,000 ft., it can be identified from points of sufficient altitude and at sufficient distance in any direction whatever.
Page 140 - ... the hitherto prevailing conception of the walllike descent of the range must be given up.
Page 140 - ... gradually in ranges of transverse spurs, whose cape-like ends project far into the desert, or in other places in the step-like tailing off of longitudinal ranges.
Page 6 - On the other hand, in order not to give to the report a compass which would retard its publication, botanical, zoological, and climatological observations will have to be almost wholly omitted.
Page 115 - Alep-turga, about 8,200 ft. (2,500 m.) in altitude (these, like most of the following names, are not to be found on any of the existing maps) — the Kok-shaal river should be crossed, but, owing to the strength of the current, the passage proved impracticable.