Mazartag

English Mazar Tagh Alternative forms en Masartag Etymology Borrowed from en ug مازارتاغ. Pronunciation en Proper noun en mountain range autonomous region/Xinjiang c/China in the Taklamakan Desert. en 1996 Zhou Zhiyi; W. T. Dean Phanerozoic Geology of Northwest China https://books.google.com/books?id=4E7qZz0PtVcC Science Press 718047911 w:Beijing 125 https://books.google.com/books?id=4E7qZz0PtVcC&pg=PA125&lpg=PA125 In the course of marine incursion and sedimentation, the sea only reached the Wuqia area during the late Eocene, but in Palaeocene - middle Eocene, marine conditions extended eastwards into the desert of the Mazartag area, and southwards, probably into the Aqqik area of Lop. en 2011 Major and Other Notable Deserts of the World John P. Rafferty Deserts and Steppes https://archive.org/details/desertssteppes0000unse/ w:Encyclopedia Britannica 1st 9781615303175 2010022143 631751212 106 https://archive.org/details/desertssteppes0000unse/page/106/ Several small mountain ranges and chains, composed of sandstones and clays of Cenozoic age (i.e., formed within about the past 65 million years), rise in the western part of the desert. The arc-shaped Mazartag Mountains, located between the Hotan and Yarkand (Ye’erqiang) river valleys, arch toward the southwest. en AUGUST 25, 2013 w:Mark Kitto Phantom enemies https://web.archive.org/web/20130827104309/http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/phantom-enemies-mark-kitto-hetian-xinjiang-uighurs-china/ 27 August 2013 Prospect (magazine) Prospect Essays Two days later I was in the middle of the Taklamakan desert. I had driven there, along a new road that cuts past a major landmark, the low lying ridge of the Mazartag mountains that come to an abrupt end at the Hetian river. There’s a ruined Tibetan fort on the top of the mountains’ end, overlooking the river. It dates from the 18th century when the Tibetan empire stretched northwards to the Tianshan mountains. Below the fort was the site of a resupply point from the expedition. I wanted to show my children.[...]We had an eventful drive through a blinding sandstorm, a couple of police checkpoints, and then along a sandy track off the main road that was too much for the car. We dug it out. Then the rain began—rain, in the desert. We set up camp and cooked supper. The wind had died to nothing. It was a beautiful evening. In the west the Mazartag ridge glowed red in the setting sun. en Translations mountain range Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 麻扎塔格 Mázhātǎgé Japanese: ja Uyghur: ug مازارتاغ