Exploring the Taklamakan Desert, why do you say go in, you can t get out ?

Many tourists will quickly get lost after walking into the Taklamakan Desert, because it is too vast and there is no obvious reference around, people are easy to get lost when they walk in, and they circle in it, and this place is extremely lacking in water. It is said that you can't get out if you go in and out.

This is because the wind can blow up the sand wall up to three times as high. The desert has long sand dunes, and the dunes are constantly moving due to the influence of the wind, which means that the road under your feet is always moving, and the direction of people is always lost.

Because it is the largest desert in China and the second largest mobile desert in the world. The entire desert is about 1,000 kilometers long from east to west and 400 kilometers wide from north to south, covering an area of 330,000 square kilometers. It is known as the "Sea of Death".

Because the sand of the Taklamakan Desert is fluid.

The Taklamakan Desert, the largest desert in China, is also the second largest mobile desert in the world. Taklamakan once had a glorious history and culture, and the ancient Silk Road was a necessary place, witnessing the changes of the times for thousands of years! <>

In the noisy and chaotic society of today, do you also want to go here to enjoy the comfort of "lost contact" for a few days? But some people say that this Taklamakan Desert is "to walk in." Can't get out" place!

Why? Now I'll tell you why this Taklamakan can't come out?

[1. The reason for historical rumors! 】<

You must know that the compilation of stories in myths and legends is a phenomenon that the people could not explain at that time, so people regard them as the will of the gods. In ancient times, people did not have advanced equipment and did not have accurate positioning, only a camel crossed this endless desert! Think about it, what a hard thing to do!

As a result, people have spread rumors that this desert is a "cursed" place, and no one who enters it will survive! So the legend gradually passed down! But in our modern society, science and technology have long advanced.

People can drive, use precise navigation, and even fly over the desert, but what strange things will exist that "can't get out"?

[2. The special geomorphological reasons of the Taklamakan Desert! 】<

As we all know, this Taklamakan Desert is a mobile desert, and the sand and gravel in it have strong mobility! A very small wind can easily blow up the sand and gravel to form a sandstorm, which means that there are a lot of sandstorms in Taklamakan and there is no regularity at all! When the sandstorm comes, the sandstorm is quickly blown up by the wind, and then blurs the vision of human beings, and may even reach the point of "reaching out and not seeing five fingers", making it difficult for people to walk, and even getting involved in the sandstorm!

There is no sense of direction and balance at all, and weak humans have the strength to escape from this terrible desert?

In addition, there is no sense of direction and landmarks in the endless desert, and it is difficult for humans to walk in a straight line from the desert, and most of them just spin in place! It's impossible to get out at all!

Taklamakan Desert.

ofSurfaceis made up of several hundred meters thickLoose alluviumIt was formed, which appeared as far back as 4.5 million years ago, and according to relevant scholars**, the Taklamakan Desert is locatedTarim BasinIt used to be a shallow sea, butThe movement of the earth's crust makes the oceans disappear, plusQinghai-Tibet PlateauPamirsand the uplift of the Tien Shan Mountains, which surrounded the Tarim region to form a basinThe lack of access to ocean water vapor has led to extreme drought in the Tarim Basinand so onThe Taklamakan Desert was formed by weathering over time

The Taklamakan Desert is located in southern Xinjiang.

The center of the Tarim Basin, isIt is the largest desert in China and the tenth largest in the world。The sand dunes stand 300 meters above the plains, and there are often wind-blown sand formations, and there are a small number of plants and animals in the desert, and it is worth mentioning that the animals there have summer hibernation.

Taklamakan has a glorious history and cultureThe Ancient Silk RoadThe route passes through the entire southern tip of the Taklamakan regionMany archaeological data show that the desert hinterland is silent about many of the prosperity that once existed, which makes people think of a lot.

A new study by scientists suggests that the Taklamakan Desert mayAs early as 4.5 million years ago, it was already a vast and boundless sea of sandScientists have conducted an in-depth analysis of the sedimentary strata on the southern edge of the Tarim Basin and found that there are a large number of "aeolian loess" formed by the action of wind, which is at least 4.5 million years old, and these "aeolian loess" is ** in the Taklamakan Desert.

So how exactly did it come to be? In fact, it is speculated that the formation of the basin desert is mainly stillThe surrounding mountains block the moisture of the ocean, and without precipitation, it will dry up over time, inIt was formed after 10,000 years of weathering and aeolian sand depositsThis vast desert can actually be guessedIt is inevitable that rivers formed by melting snow and ice in the surrounding mountains will not carry the rocks and sand from the mountains, so that's probably one of the reasons.

It is inferred that the desert may have been an ocean a long time ago, but it disappeared with the movement of the earth's crust.

The Taklamakan Desert is spectacular, and if you have the opportunity, you can go and see it, and you will inevitably be deeply shocked.

Due to its deep inland, the Taklamakan Desert has very little precipitation, and the continental land has been short of water for a long time, and the rocks are basically mainly mechanically weathered, resulting in the formation of rock debris.

In the later period, rock debris was transported, sorted, and accumulated by wind to form the Taklamakan Desert.

The surface of the Taklamakan Desert is formed by loose alluvium several hundred meters thick. This alluvial layer is affected by the wind, which moves up to 300 meters of sand cover. The topographical features formed by the wind are diverse, and sand dunes of all shapes and sizes can be seen.

The Karamakan Desert is a warm temperate arid desert with a maximum temperature of more than 40 days and nights. The average annual precipitation does not exceed 100 mm, and the minimum is only four or five mm; And the average evaporation is as high as 2500 3400 mm.

The Taklamakan Desert is caused by the movement of the earth's crust. More than 4 million years ago, with the movement of the earth's crust, the earth's crust was elevated and changed like a sea. The high mountains rising from north to south block the humid air over the ocean, and the annual rainfall is more than 30 millimeters, and the annual evaporation is thousands of millimeters.

Since the 80s of the last century to the present, in the Taklamakan Desert has proven oil reserves, according to the latest round of resource evaluation, the total proven oil and gas resources in the Tarim Basin of Xinjiang are 15 billion tons, including 100 million tons <>of oil and trillions of cubic meters of natural gas, and about 100 million tons of oil have been exploited, and more than 100 billion cubic meters of natural gas have been exploited

However, the buried depth is 78,000 meters deep, some tens of thousands of meters deep, and there are oil-bearing layers in the strata from Hami in the east to Kashgar in the west for several thousand meters, and the prospective reserves are much more than one Saudi Arabia, and the prospects are very considerable. These energy sources serve as our country's strategic reserve resources.

China's Taklamakan Desert contains abundant oil underground, PetroChina and Sinopec have already opened up oil fields here, and there are currently a number of drilling teams drilling here, and the annual output here has exceeded many eastern oil fields.

I myself am a petroleum engineer, and my company has been working in the Tarim Oilfield for a long time, and I myself have worked here for several years, and I still often travel here on business, and the desert roads are all in and out.

The desert highway in Taklamakan was built by the oil company, and the slogan of PetroChina can still be seen on this highway, "there is only a desolate desert, no desolate life", which is the best mark left by the oil people in the desert.

From Karamay to the south, all the way to the hinterland of the Taklamakan Desert, there is a thousand-kilometer oil belt with huge reserves, and in some places the oil is exposed to the ground.

The desert is a very inhospitable place for species, and the hot temperatures make it feel like one"Steamer"。Barren and exposed to the sun, the desert is almost devoid of life. This desert in our country is called"Sea of Death"It is like the ocean, boundless, so that many people who are lost here are very desperate.

Once Xuanzang was here, he was trapped for more than a few days, for him it was like walking in the ghost gate, you must know that the annual precipitation in the Taklamakan Desert is only a pitiful 30 mm, and sometimes there is only 10 mm of precipitation, so extreme water shortage is the most likely thing in this desert.

However, Xuanzang was lucky, because of the spirituality of the old horse, he inadvertently found a water source. A few years later, he recalled this desert and bluntly said that the heat is not terrible, and the most terrifying thing is that you don't know the end at all. The Taklamakan Desert covers 330,000 square kilometers, and it is basically impossible to get out of the Taklamakan Desert.

The resources under the Taklamakan Desert are very rich, rich in very rich oil and water sources, and are indispensable wealth for China.

The Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang is known as the "Sea of Death". In the depths of the Taklamakan Desert, there is a place called the ruins of Niya. The ruins of Niya are the former site of the exquisite country of the Han Dynasty, when the forest was thick, the river was murmuring, the cattle and sheep were everywhere, the Qianmo was vertical and horizontal, and the houses were lined up one after another, a prosperous scene.

However. Now it's a different world entirely: the rivers have dried up, the trees are dead, and there is no greenery.

There are no birds in the sky, no beasts on the earth, not even flies or mosquitoes. It's a completely lifeless world. Wind and sand dominate everything, there are yellow sand dunes everywhere, and the yellow sand rolls at the slightest wind, and the withered trees are shivering.

There are abundant mineral resources underground, and there are gasoline fields in this desert, which is a national treasure.