Guliya
English edit
Etymology edit
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 古里雅 (Gǔlǐyǎ).
Proper noun edit
Guliya
- An ice cap in Rutog County, Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, 35°17'N, 81°29'E
- 2005, Mark Bowen, Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World's Highest Mountains[1], New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 212:
- On the Guliya glacier in the western Kunlun, they hand-drilled three cores, including one from the twenty-two-thousand-foot summit that was the highest ever retrieved at the time.
- 2006, L. DeWayne Cecil, Jaromy R. Green, Lonnie G. Thompson, editors, Earth Paleoenvironments: Records Preserved in Mid- and Low-Latitude Glaciers[2], volume 9, Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 167:
- The area of the Guliya Ice Cap is more than 300 km² and the area at the top is more than 100 km². According to the debris at the terminal end of the glacier, the ice cap is stable. There is no abrupt change in ice layers from the top to the bottom. Thus, the features of the Guliya Ice Cap satisfy the assumptions made for our calculations.
- 2017 December 23, Eleanor Imster, Deborah Byrd, “Scientists explain insights from ancient Tibetan ice core”, in Earth & Sky[3], archived from the original on 28 February 2020[4]:
- Guliya Glacier is located in Tibet’s western Kunlun Mountains, one of Earth’s largest supplies of freshwater ice outside of the Arctic and Antarctica.
- a. 2020, “Guliya Ice Cap, China”, in Ohio State University[5], archived from the original on 26 January 2020[6]:
- In 1992, an American-Chinese expedition successfully recovered a 308.6-meter ice core (see drill in photograph) from the Guliya ice cap (35°17'N, 81°29'E; summit 6710 m a.s.l.) in the far western Kunlun Shan on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China (see map). Guliya resembles a "polar" ice cap, is surrounded by vertical 30 to 40 meter ice walls (see photographs) and has internal temperatures of -15.6°, -5.9°, and -2.1°C at 10m, 200m and the base, respectively.
- 2020 January 17, Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, “Ancient viruses found in Tibetan glacier”, in Science[7], archived from the original on 21 August 2020[8]:
- In 2015, when researchers embarked on an expedition to retrieve the oldest ice on the planet, they were doing it to look for clues about past climate. But during the journey—to the Guliya ice cap in China’s Tibet (above)—they also found 15,000-year-old viruses—some of them new to science, Vice reports.
- 2020 January 31, Natali Anderson, “15,000-Year-Old Viruses and Bacteria Found in Glacier Ice from Tibet”, in Sci-News.com[9], archived from the original on 27 February 2020[10]:
- A team of U.S. researchers has found ancient viruses and bacteria in ice from two cores drilled on the summit and plateau of the Guliya ice cap in northwestern Tibetan Plateau, China.