Badain Jaran Desert
Badain Jaran Desert is located in the Alashan Plateau in the hyper-arid and temperate desert region of northwestern China and contains a concentrated distribution of mega-dunes with a relative height of more than 200 metres, and the inter-dunal lake basins.
It is an ideal place for the study of the ongoing evolutionary processes of desert geomorphology in the temperate extreme arid desert region.
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2024 Inscribed
2021 Postponed
Due to Covid reasons
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Ecology
Endorheic Lakes: "The144 inter-dunal lakes are exceptional (AB ev) , "The sources of lake water are also debated, but there are four main hypotheses: atmospheric precipitation, groundwater from nearby areas, precipitation and snowmelt in remote areas such as the Qilian Mountains and the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau, or paleowater that formed during past periods of wet climate"
Yardangs: Yardangs are present in a small section of Badain Jaran (see link), however the AB ev states that smaller components with yardangs were excluded from the final nomination.