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The Deserts of Asia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

George B. Cressey
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More than one third of Asia is dry. From the Red Sea almost to the Pacific are a series of deserts and semideserts, the product of continentality, mountain patterns, and atmospheric circulation. Two areas of extreme aridity are present in die Rub al Khali of southern Arabia and the Takla Makan of western China, both essentially rainless and lifeless. Elsewhere, aridity fades off into subhumid lands with marginal potentials for settlement.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 19 , Issue 4 , August 1960 , pp. 389 - 402
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1960

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References

1 Meigs, Pevril: “World Distribution of Arid and Semi-Arid Homodimates,” UNESCO Arid Zone Programme: Reviews of Arid Zone Hydrology, (1953).Google Scholar