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13-624: The glacier is 10.1 kilometres (6.3 mi) long. It covers 21.9 square kilometres (8.5 sq mi). It is located in the Qilian Mountain range, in Subei County . The New York Times profiled the glacier's retreat as symbolic of the dangers of global warming . A report by the research center said the retreat of the Mengke Glacier and two others in the Qilian range accelerated gradually in

26-692: A series of isolated conifer forests on the northern slopes of the Qilian Mountain Range , on the northeast edge of the Tibetan Plateau in Qinghai and Gansu provinces of north-central China . The scattered patches of this ecoregion are thin ridges of forest between the Gobi Desert to the north, and the dry and high Tibetan Plateau to the south. The surrounding areas are alpine meadows and scrub. The fragmented forests are found in isolated segments in

39-599: Is a large brackish lake, located within the Qilian mountains. The characteristic ecosystem of the Qilian Mountains has been described by the World Wildlife Fund as the Qilian Mountains conifer forests . Biandukou ( 扁都口 ), with an altitude of over 3500 m, is a pass in the Qilian Mountains. It links Minle County of Gansu in the north and Qilian County of Qinghai in the south. The Shiji mentions

52-841: The Hanshu . Sanping Chen (1998) suggested that 天 tiān , 昊天 hàotiān , 祁連 qílián , and 赫連 Hèlián were all cognates and descended from multisyllabic Proto-Sinitic * gh?klien . Schessler (2014) objects to Yan Shigu's statement that 祁連 was a Xiongnu word; he reconstructs 祁連's pronunciation in around 121 BCE as * gɨ-lian , apparently the same etymon as 乾 (☰) the Trigram for "Heaven", in standard Chinese qián < Middle Chinese QYS * gjän < Eastern Han Chinese gɨan < Old Chinese * gran , which Schuessler etymologizes as from Proto-Sino-Tibetan and related to Proto-Tibeto-Burman * m-ka-n , cognate with Written Tibetan མཁའ ( Wylie transliteration : mkha') “heaven”. The Tuyuhun were based around

65-672: The Altyn-Tagh sometimes known as the Nan Shan , as it is to the south of the Hexi Corridor , is a northern outlier of the Kunlun Mountains , forming the border between Qinghai and the Gansu provinces of northern China . The range stretches from the south of Dunhuang some 800 km to the southeast, forming the northeastern escarpment of the Tibetan Plateau and the southwestern border of

78-624: The Hexi Corridor . The eponymous Qilian Shan peak, situated some 60 km south of Jiuquan , at 39°12′N 98°32′E  /  39.200°N 98.533°E  / 39.200; 98.533 , rises to 5,547 m. It is the highest peak of the main range, but there are two higher peaks further south, Kangze'gyai at 38°30′N 97°43′E  /  38.500°N 97.717°E  / 38.500; 97.717 with 5,808 m and Qaidam Shan peak at 38°2′N 95°19′E  /  38.033°N 95.317°E  / 38.033; 95.317 with 5,759 m . Other major peaks include Gangshiqia Peak in

91-498: The 1990s, then tripled their speed in the 2000s. In the last decade, the glaciers have been disappearing at a faster rate than at any time since 1960. This article about a glacier in China is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Qilian Mountain 39°12′N 98°32′E  /  39.200°N 98.533°E  / 39.200; 98.533 The Qilian Mountains ( Tibetan : མདོ་ལ་རིང་མོ ), together with

104-504: The Qilian mountains. The mountain range was formerly known in European languages as Richthofen Range after Ferdinand von Richthofen , who was the Red Baron 's explorer-geologist uncle. The mountain range gives its name to Qinghai's Qilian County . Qilian Mountains conifer forests The Qilian Mountains Conifer Forests ecoregion (WWF ID: PA0517) is an ecoregion that consists of

117-483: The east. The Nan-Shan range continues to the west as Yema Shan (5,250 m) and Altun Shan (Altyn Tagh) (5,798 m). To the east, it passes north of Qinghai Lake , terminating as Daban Shan and Xinglong Shan near Lanzhou , with Maoma Shan peak (4,070 m) an eastern outlier. Sections of the Ming dynasty 's Great Wall pass along its northern slopes, and south of northern outlier Longshou Shan (3,616 m). The Qilian mountains are

130-547: The eastern Qilian Mountains, Daban Shan, the Amne Machin range, and Dié Shan. These segments are located in Qinghai and Gansu provinces. Because of its high elevation and mid-continental location, the ecoregion's climate is Subarctic climate, dry winter ( Köppen climate classification Subarctic climate (Dwc)). This climate is characterized by mild summers (only 1–3 months above 10 °C or 50.0 °F) and cold winters having monthly precipitation less than one-tenth of

143-524: The name "Qilian mountains" together with Dunhuang in relation to the homeland of the Yuezhi . These Qilian Mountains however, has been suggested to be the mountains now known as Tian Shan , 1,500 km to the west. Dunhuang has also been argued to be the Dunhong mountain. Qilian ( 祁连 ) is said to be a Xiongnu word meaning "sky" ( Chinese : 天 ) according to Yan Shigu , a Tang dynasty commentator on

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156-661: The source of numerous, mostly small, rivers and creeks that flow northeast, enabling irrigated agriculture in the Hexi Corridor (Gansu Corridor) communities, and eventually disappearing in the Alashan Desert . The best known of these streams is the Ejin (Heihe) River . The region has many glaciers , the largest of which is the Touming Mengke . These glaciers have undergone acceleration in their melting in recent decades. Lake Hala

169-598: The wettest summer month. The average temperatures range from −18 to −7 °C (0 to 19 °F) in January, and 5 to 21 °C (41 to 70 °F) in July. The dominant trees in the ecoregion are the Qilian spruce ( Picea crassifolia ) and the Przewalski's juniper ( Juniperus przewalskii ). There are stands of short-stature bamboo in the understory. The relative isolation of the forests suggests that they may serve as habitat for

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