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At the margins, streams run out of the mountains and are augmented by freshwater springs in the foothills. These rivers fan out as they flow toward the center of the basin. In this satellite image, those oases appear deep greenish-brown in the west and southwest of the desert, while a river of rippling dust blows across the northern part of the desert and out of sight at image right. Frequent dust storms in April and May can blanket the whole region for days at a time, sometimes blocking out the sun. The dust storms can spread for hundreds, even thousands, of kilometers, and are a health and safety problem for people in their path.

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  • At the margins, streams run out of the mountains and are augmented by freshwater springs in the foothills. These rivers fan out as they flow toward the center of the basin. In this satellite image, those oases appear deep greenish-brown in the west and southwest of the desert, while a river of rippling dust blows across the northern part of the desert and out of sight at image right. Frequent dust storms in April and May can blanket the whole region for days at a time, sometimes blocking out the sun. The dust storms can spread for hundreds, even thousands, of kilometers, and are a health and safety problem for people in their path.
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  • At the margins, streams run out of the mountains and are augmented by freshwater springs in the foothills. These rivers fan out as they flow toward the center of the basin. In this satellite image, those oases appear deep greenish-brown in the west and southwest of the desert, while a river of rippling dust blows across the northern part of the desert and out of sight at image right. Frequent dust storms in April and May can blanket the whole region for days at a time, sometimes blocking out the sun. The dust storms can spread for hundreds, even thousands, of kilometers, and are a health and safety problem for people in their path. The sea of sand and salt stretches over roughly 259,000 square kilometers (about 100,000 square miles), and as much as 85 percent of it consists of enormous, shifting, crescent-shaped sand dunes that often reach heights of 100-300 meters and widths of more than a kilometer. Some of these dunes make light-colored ripples against the deeper color of the desert to the east of the small river in the bottom center of the basin (see high-resolution image). Much of the basin is dominated by the Taklamakan Desert. The area is sparsely settled by Uyghurs and other central Asian peoples, as well as by Han Chinese, many of them recent immigrants to the area from other parts of China. Lop Nur is a saline marshy depression at the east end of the Tarim Basin. The Tarim River empties into the Lop Nur. The snow on K2, the second highest mountain in the world flows off into glaciers, which move down the valleys to melt, forming river water which winds its way down out of the mountains to finally end up in the Tarim Basin. These waters never find the sea. In the midst of the deserts all around they feed the oases, are pumped off for agriculture, and some finally make it to a set of salt lakes and marshes where they evaporate.
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