Jartai

alternative Charatai

1. A town in Alxa Left, Alxa, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, in northern China.

   To evaluate the stability of the NOAA Pathfinder data set, a window containing mobile sand dunes without vegetation—visited during fieldwork in September 1995—was chosen north of Jartai in the Ulan Buh Desert (Eval-site in Fig. 9).

   2000 December, Micael C. Runnström, “Is Northern China Winning the Battle against Desertification?”, in AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment, volume 29, number 8, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 471

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   Here the Alxa Platform Uplift needs a special explanation. Some Chinese geologists consider that it is not a platform but a part of a Paleozoic geosyncline. Here we still believe that it represents a platform uplift. This is supported by the following lines of evidence:[...](4) there occurs the high-grade metamorphic Alxa Group north of Jartai, which is intruded by 1365-my-old gabbro and overlain by the Late Proterozoic metamorphic rock series; and[...]

   1987, “Brief Description of the Main Tectonic Units of China”, in Geotectonic Evolution of China, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 51

   Going to Jartai by Mistake [...]At last, we saw lights up ahead and stopped our car to make inquiries. We were told that in fact this was not Linhe but Jartai, a name entirely unfamiliar to us.[...] Jartai, the site of China's first mechanized saltworks, is not a big town, but all its hotels were packed with tourists.

   1993 August, Miao Wang, Shi Bao Xiu, edited by Tu Nai Hsien, From the Pamirs to Beijing: Tracing Marco Polo's Northern Route, Hong Kong: HK China Tourism Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 101, 102

2. A lake in Alxa Left, Alxa, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, in northern China.

   In Alashan there are salt lakes here and there, Charatai-Dabasu being 33 miles round, and encrusted with a layer of fine salt, 2 to 6 ft. thick.

   [1920, “GEOGRAPHY PHYSICAL AND POLITICAL”, in G. W. Prothero, editor, Mongolia (Handbooks Prepared under the Direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office), number 68, London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, →OCLC, page 10

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   Notable lakes in the Mongolian land are[...]These are salt lakes. Freshwater ones are the Charatai Dabuson in Alashan and the Dabasana Nor in the Ortus country.

   [1927, Henry H. Howorth, “A GENERAL VIEW OF THE GEOGRAPHY, ETHNOGRAPHY, AND BIOLOGY OF CENTRAL ASIA”, in History of the Mongols, volume IV, Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 12