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Guliya

Syllables: Gu·li·ya

Guliya proper noun: an ice cap in Rutog County, Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, 35°17'N, 81°29'E.

guliya: an ice cap in Rutog County, Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, 35°17'N, 81°29'E
Image: Army Map Service (AM), Corps of Engineers, 1950, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Proper noun

Guliya

  1. An ice cap in Rutog County, Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, 35°17'N, 81°29'E
    • On the Guliya glacier in the western Kunlun, they hand-drilled three cores, including one from the twenty-two-thousand-foot summit that was the highest ever retrieved at the time.2005, Mark Bowen, “Casting About”, in Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World's Highest Mountains, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 212
    • The area of the Guliya Ice Cap is more than 300 km² and the area at the top is more than 100 km². According to the debris at the terminal end of the glacier, the ice cap is stable. There is no abrupt change in ice layers from the top to the bottom. Thus, the features of the Guliya Ice Cap satisfy...2006, L. DeWayne Cecil, Jaromy R. Green, Lonnie G. Thompson, editors, Earth Paleoenvironments: Records Preserved in Mid- and Low-Latitude Glaciers, volume 9, Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC...

Examples of Guliya in a sentence

  • The area of the Guliya Ice Cap is more than 300 km² and the area at the top is more than 100 km².2006, L. DeWayne Cecil, Jaromy R. Green, Lonnie G. Thompson, editors, Earth Paleoenvironments: Records Preserved in Mid- and Low-Latitude...
  • Guliya Glacier is located in Tibet’s western Kunlun Mountains, one of Earth’s largest supplies of freshwater ice outside of the Arctic and Antarctica.2017 December 23, Eleanor Imster, Deborah Byrd, “Scientists explain insights from ancient Tibetan ice core”, in Earth & Sky, archived from...
  • But during the journey—to the Guliya ice cap in China’s Tibet (above)—they also found 15,000-year-old viruses—some of them new to science, Vice reports.2020 January 17, Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, “Ancient viruses found in Tibetan glacier”, in Science, archived from the original on 21 Aug 2020:
  • A team of U.S. researchers has found ancient viruses and bacteria in ice from two cores drilled on the summit and plateau of the Guliya ice cap in northwestern Tibetan Plateau, China.2020 January 31, Natali Anderson, “15,000-Year-Old Viruses and Bacteria Found in Glacier Ice from Tibet”, in Sci-News.com, archived from...

Origin of Guliya

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 古里雅 (Gǔlǐyǎ).

Questions about Guliya

What does Guliya mean?
Guliya means an ice cap in Rutog County, Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, 35°17'N, 81°29'E.
How do you use Guliya in a sentence?
The area of the Guliya Ice Cap is more than 300 km² and the area at the top is more than 100 km².
What part of speech is Guliya?
Guliya is a proper noun.

Words near Guliya in the dictionary

  1. Gulistan
  2. Guliston
  3. gulitol
  4. gulix
  5. gulixes
  6. Guliya
  7. guljeot
  8. gulkand
  9. gulkhand
  10. gull
  11. gull-billed tern

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