Lop Nur
Lop Nur or Lop Nor or Lop Desert is a desert with the formerly lake Lop Nur in the Tarim Basin, Xinjiang, China.
Satellite pictures[edit]
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Left: Kuruktagh, Right: Astintagh.
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The Helix of the former sea Lop Nur.
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In the foreground Kuruktagh, in the background Kumtagh and Astintagh.
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Potash fertilizer production plant, 8 July 2003.
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Potash fertilizer production plant, 12 October 2009.
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Potash fertilizer production plant, 12 October 2009.
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Potash factory
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In the foreground Kuruktagh, in the background Kumtagh and Astintagh. A dust storm is blowing to the west over the Desert of Lop.
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Satellite Image of the "Big Ear" in Lop Nur (left) and of the Kumtag Desert (middle) and Astintag (right) in Xinjiang.
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Lop Nur
Yandang at the Yandang Shan Geopark[edit]
Archaeology[edit]
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Christoph Baumer at the Bronze Age graveyard, Gumugo, 2009
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Europoid Mask, Lop Nur, China, 2000-1000 BCE
Maps[edit]
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Map including part of Lop Nur (bottom right) (DMA, 1990)
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Map of the Lop Nur region, Xinjiang, China mainly after A. Herrmann by Folke Bergman 1935.
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c. 1706, map of Asia issued by Daniel de La Feuille
