The Gobi Desert is extreme in many cases having low precipitation,extreme heat in the day and excruciating cold at night and a barren landscape.
The Gobi Desert is a rain-shadow desert(a desert with low preciptation because of a mountian or other blocking it from rain)due to the Himalayas.It covers to south of Mongolia and the north of China.It measures 1600 km from southwest to northeast and 800 km from north to south.Even though it is a desert,it is mostly bare rock.It is highly known by archaeologists because of it high content of fossils including early mammals,dinosaur eggs and prehistoric stone implements.
The Gobi Desert is quite cold with frost and sometimes snow appearing of its dunes.It is 900 to 1520 metres above sea level.It has an average of 194 millimetres of rain per year with a the lowest temperature being -400C in winter and the highest being just above 50oC in summer.For information on the climate go to the Climate Page.
The Khongoryn Els (or Singing Dunes) at Omngobi Aimag are some of the few sand dunes in the Gobi and 200m high and many kilometres wide.Another popular landform is the One Hundred Tree Oasis,a small oasis on the northern edge of the Gobi.And finally,the last tourist attraction is the Gobi Badlands,in the south of the Gobi.
The Gobi Desert is a rain-shadow desert(a desert with low preciptation because of a mountian or other blocking it from rain)due to the Himalayas.It covers to south of Mongolia and the north of China.It measures 1600 km from southwest to northeast and 800 km from north to south.Even though it is a desert,it is mostly bare rock.It is highly known by archaeologists because of it high content of fossils including early mammals,dinosaur eggs and prehistoric stone implements.
The Gobi Desert is quite cold with frost and sometimes snow appearing of its dunes.It is 900 to 1520 metres above sea level.It has an average of 194 millimetres of rain per year with a the lowest temperature being -400C in winter and the highest being just above 50oC in summer.For information on the climate go to the Climate Page.
The Khongoryn Els (or Singing Dunes) at Omngobi Aimag are some of the few sand dunes in the Gobi and 200m high and many kilometres wide.Another popular landform is the One Hundred Tree Oasis,a small oasis on the northern edge of the Gobi.And finally,the last tourist attraction is the Gobi Badlands,in the south of the Gobi.