1. title Chinas Geoclimatic Setting © Howard R. Spendelow Georgetown University revised 08 Dec 2011

2. China = rooster

3. Pan-Gallo: the world as a giant chicken…

4. Tectonic plate movement

5. Chinas topography

6. Annual Precipitation

7. rainfall distribution

8. Precipitation in North China, by month

9. Average Annual Temperature

10. extent of loess deposits

11. Chinas loess plateau ( )

12. global loess deposits

13. loess landscape, Shanxi

14. extreme loess terracing

15. more loess terracing…

16. Yellow River

17. historical shifts of the Yellow River bed (with Grand Canal)

18. Wei River (Shaanxi) filled with loess

19. caves dug into a loess hillside, N. China

20. digging loess as a building material, Xian

21. Cave houses in a loess cliff

22. terracing with loess

23. Bayanbulak grasslands, Xinjiang Uygur A.R.

24. Taklamakan Desert

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26. Li River in Guilin, Guangxi A.R.

27. Karst formations, somewhere…

28. Zhangjiajie in the Wulingyuan Scenic Area, Hunan - UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1992 (photo by Adam Murray, SFS 02)

29. Chinas Macroregions

30. Linkages between villages and markets

31. Markets in Sichuan, mid-20 th century

32. (the end)

33. residential loess caves

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35. Arial view of central Shanxi

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