'The German explorer and geologist, Dr. Trinkler, who left! Srinagar in May, 1927, and who this now returned, contributes to the Statesman" an' account of ventures, According to ae: feutia message to "The Times," he Says. thas, when 10 days' journey beyond Fobrang, all. the horses strayed, and the party was compelled to walk." The yaks were Subsequently nearly all lost owing to lack of grazing, and only sheep transport remained, In the Upper Karabush Valley. friendly. Kirghiz nomads" eventually supplied new transport animals' and' provisions. Abandoning his intention to go to Khotan, he proceeded to. Yarkand.
Dr. de Terra studied the geology of the 'Kuenlan mountains, while Dr. Trinkler concentrated on' the Taklo Mahan" desert, where he spent five months, returning at the end of May to Kashgar for an unuscessful parley with the Chinese officials concerning obstruction to his work. Dr. Trinkler and Dr.
Terra left for the Karakorum and reached Leh on August 11.
Dr. Trinkler says his exploration fof the Karakorum and the Kuenlan Shows that daring the Tee Age the: whole area was buried under big glaciers. This part of Central Asia was covered by an immense and. icecap. as Greenland and Spitzhergen are to-day. Inthe lower part of the Kuenlun valleys andthe upper Indus Valley he found hig moraine deposits. When the ice melted, sirantic foods and enormous rivers, possibly four times greater than' any of the Indian rivers in flood to-day, must have rushed down to the plains of India and. Turkestan, inundating lave areax. Enormous gravel deposits "stretch along the. northern Slopes of the Kueniun mountains, fand are even seen on the ede of the Takla Mahan desert, where tually emerge among clay After the Iee. Age, the basin of Chinese Turkestan contained a lake, which Tater dried up-and sands accumulated on the ite. Between the present cultivated area and the decart there a large belt of, dead poplar trees covering 2,000 square miles. At the ruined site of Rawak, neat Khotan, culture strata of earlier centuries are buried beneath an layer of thick clay, covered by fresh-water Inkes even Tater than the four and fifth een-turies AD.
The dry valleys scooped out. by wind erosion in the desert sections show clearly five-fold layers of clay: and desert sand. Dr. de Terra found fossil plants hitherto undiscovered in Chinese Turkestan, including leaf prints proving the! existence of forests Tertiary Ace. Dr. Tri hich compliment to the Britich for their help, especially the Consul-General at Kashgar.
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