Talk:Tarim Basin

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"The Tarim Basin is the largest basin in the world" -- the largest water drainage basin (which seems unlikely, compared to those in Australia and central Asia), or the largest topographical basin?

[edit] Ancient Lake

Something should be said about this being an ancient lake, that was at least seasonal into the 1st millenium BC (and possibly later) and that the climate has become progressively more arid over the last several thousand years, until is it now a desert. see Lop Nur

The term "Chinese Turkestan" is also encountered in the literature to describe the region. --FourthAve 10:34, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Not one of the largest

Wrt: The Tarim Basin is one of the largest endorheic basins in the world, occupying an area of more than 400,000 km². Yes that is big, but there are a significant number of larger endorheic basins, such as Okavango Basin (721,000 km²), Lake Eyre Basin (1,200,000 km²), Caspian Sea Basin (3,626,000 km²), Great Basin (520,000 km²), and although I don't have areas stats for the Lake Chad Basin or the Aral Sea Basin, they are clearly enormous. And there are many others larger than the Tarim Basin (see List of endorheic basins). So with this in mind I'm going to change "one of the largest" to simply "a large". Pfly (talk) 07:48, 4 February 2008 (UTC)