Meanings
- A township in Pishan, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Zhao et al. (1998) discovered that lamprophyres occur at Kiliyang, Pishan County, on the SW margin of the Tarim Basin.
2003 March, He Huaiyu, Guo Zhengfu, Wang Songshan, Hao Jie, Liu Qiang, Ariel Boven, “⁴⁰Ar/³⁹ Ar Age and Geological Significance of Lamprophyres in Pishan on the SW Margin of the Tarim Terrane, NW China”, in Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition), volume 77, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC2 more examples
The Kiliyang section in Pishan County is one of the most complete Meso-Cenozoic sections in the Kashi-Hotan depression, in which the deformation phenomenon is very typical.
2008 April, Cui Junwen, Li Pengwu, Guo Xianpu, Ding Xiaozhong, Tang Zhemin, “Basin- and Mountain-Building Dynamic Model of “Ramping-Detachment-Compression” in the West Kunlun-Southern Tarim Basin Margin”, in Acta Geologica Sinica, volume 82, number 2, →DOI, page 363Fig. 4-10 Diagram-matic section of Kiliyang, Pishan on the north slope of the west Kunlun Mountains[…] Fig. 4-19 Single-grain fission-track ages of the samples from the Kiliyang section at Pishan County in the southern Tarim basin
Guangdong Technology Publishing House
2013, 李廷栋, 潘桂棠, 肖序常, 陈炳蔚, 青藏高原隆升的地质记录及机制, 广东科技出版社 [Guangdong Technology Publishing House], →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=LaYwEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT101&lpg=PT101Synonyms: Keliyang
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounA township in Pishan, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Origin
- Uyghurكىلىياڭ
- EnglishKiliyang
Borrowed from Uyghur كىلىياڭ (kiliyang).
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Chinese Mandarin 克里陽
- 克里陽 (Kèlǐyáng)township in Pishan, Hotan, Xinjiang, China
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