Elevation of Pamirs Plateau

The average elevation of Pamirs is above 4500 meters.

Pamirs, Persian, means flat-topped houses. China was called Green Ridge in ancient times, where the ancient Silk Road passed. Located in the southeast of Central Asia and the westernmost tip of China, it spans Tajikistan, China and Afghanistan. Pamir Plateau is the intersection of Kunlun Mountain, Karakorum Mountain, Hindu Kush Mountain and Tianshan Mountain, which spans the southwest of Xinjiang, the southeast of Tajikistan and the northeast of Afghanistan in China. The average elevation of Pamirs is over 4,500 meters, and the main peak is over 6,000 meters.

Located at the westernmost end of China, it was called Qingji in ancient times, and it was the only place where the ancient Silk Road passed. Although the average elevation of Pamirs is higher than that of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the terrain is relatively flat and has little fluctuation.

Geological environment of Pamirs Plateau

In fact, the Pamirs is not a flat plateau, but consists of several groups of wide valleys and basins between mountains. According to the terrain characteristics. Pamirs is divided into two parts by the North and South Mountains of the Academy of Sciences in the northwest of Lake Salez.

The eastern Pamirs is relatively open and magnanimous, consisting of two mountains in the northwest-southeast direction and a group of river valleys and lakes, with an absolute height of 5000-6000 meters. The relative height does not exceed 1000m ~ 1500m, and the mountain is round. The mountains are divided by wide and shallow valleys, with moraine plains and desert plains at an altitude of 4000 ~ 5000 meters.

The West Pamirs is composed of several roughly parallel alpine valleys in the northeast-southwest direction, with a relatively large topographic difference, characterized by high mountains and deep valleys. The western Pamirs is mainly a strongly cut alpine terrain with a relative height of 2000-3500m. The valley is narrow and deep, and the ridge is 3000-4000m higher than the bottom. Mountains and deep valleys crisscross with snow and glaciers all year round, and various glacial landforms are widely developed.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Pamirs