Citations:Tibetan Plateau

English citations of Tibetan Plateau

• 1954, Herold J. Wiens, Han Chinese Expansion in South China‎^[1], Shoe String Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 11:

  Were one to draw a profile of generalized altitudes of the landmass of Ling-nan and Kuei-chou Yun-nan in a southeast-northwest direction, the profile that emerges would represent a step-like formation from the sea to the Tibetan Plateau with five major "steps."

• 2001, Kim Dramer, “China's Sorrow”, in The Yellow River‎^[2] (Juvenile Literature), Franklin Watts, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 7–8:

  The source of the Yellow River is in the Qinghai Province on the Tibetan Plateau. This area is often called the "Roof of the World" because of its high altitude, the height of a place above sea level.

• 2021 January 29, “China 'releases' Tibet language advocate Tashi Wangchuk”, in Deutsche Welle‎^[3], archived from the original on 2021-01-29, NEWS‎^[4]:

  Tashi had been escorted to his sister's family in Yushu in Qinghai, said lawyer Liang Xiaojun, referring to one of several large western Chinese provinces with large ethnic Tibetan populations, spanning the geological Tibetan Plateau.

• 2022 August 16, “Tibetan Plateau water stores under threat: study”, in France 24‎^[5], archived from the original on 16 August 2022‎^[6]:

  The Tibetan Plateau will experience significant water loss this century due to global warming, according to research published Monday that warns of severe supply stress in a climate change "hotspot".