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1. Taklamakan Desert

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   Geography and Geomorphology
   The Taklamakan Desert covers approximately 337,000 square kilometres, making it one of the world's largest shifting sand deserts. The basin floor itself is generally shallow, sloping gently from the west (near the Pamir Mountains) towards the east. Unlike many other large deserts, the Taklamakan Desert is primarily composed of mobile, fine-grained quartz sand rather than gravel plains (serir) or salt flats ([p…