THE FORMATION OF MT.MAZA-TAGE IN THE TAKLAMAGAN DESERT AND ITS GEOGRAPHICAL SIGNIFICANCE
塔克拉玛干沙漠中麻扎塔格山的形成及其地理意义

On the basic of on-the-spot investigation and a large sum of first-hand maiericals obtained thereby the article analyse the geological features of the mountain and its landform. holding that Mt.Maza-Tageh is a monocline mountain formed after hold and uplift.Back to the early Tertiary Period this region was still a bay,After the start of the Himalayar Movement, especially during the new structural movement in the Quaternary Period, this block uplifted, confronting with sand accumulation in the Taklamagan Desert, and eve-tually becomes an insular mountain in the hinterland of the desert.Its topographical effect produces great influence on devision of the geographical environment-geological structure, hydrology, sand form, vegetation and climate And the mountain itself is a division line