Dr. Gao and colleagues identified dry temperate zones (such as western North America, the Mongolian Plateau, the Tibetan Plateau, the Mediterranean region and New Zealand) as being the most ...
Just beyond, to the northwest, the vast Mongolian plateau begins. The Gulf of Bohai lies 113 kilometers to the east and to the south, the vast North China Plain. Geologists call this small gulf ...
The second terrace extends from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to the north and east, consisting of the Inner Mongolia Plateau, the Loess Plateau, the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, and the Tarim, Junggar and ...