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Gobi (go´bê)
A desert of southeast Mongolia and northern China. It consists mainly of a series of shallow alkaline basins.

Gobi

Gobi, extensive desert area in central Asia, principally in Mongolia. It is about 1610 km (about 1000 mi) wide and about 970 km (about 600 mi) long. It is located west of the Da Hinggan Ling (Greater Khingan Range) and east of the Tien Shan range. The Gobi is essentially a plateau set between higher mountains. The surface consists mostly of rolling gravel plains interspersed with low ranges and isolated hills. Most of the region has a thin growth of grass, scrub, and thorn sufficient to feed the flocks of the nomadic herders who live on the plateau.

The first Europeans to cross the Gobi were Italian traveler Marco Polo and his father and uncle, who completed the trek about 1275. In modern times a number of expeditions have explored the Gobi, including several under the leadership of American naturalist Roy Chapman Andrews during the 1920s. Andrews's discoveries included fossilized dinosaur eggs.

• 604 track _Gobi Desert_ MP3 off of _Desert Music_ ep 12" by 100th Monkey and Tristan on Matsuri Productions (1995)
• 604 track _Desert Incident_ MP3 (192k) by Alien Project off of _Midnight Sun_ CD on Phonokol (2001)
• ambient track _Gobi Sundown_ MP3 (192k) by Syntetika off of _100% Syntetika_ CD on Shaped Harmonics #002 (2002)
• track _Medecine (Gobiman Mix)_ MP3 (192k) by Snakemen off of _Hardesertrance3 - Son Of The Moon_ by DJ Brian of Moontribe
• military destroyer lands inexplicably in the middle of Gobi desert - scene in the film _Close Encounters of the Third Kind_ DVDx2 (1977)
• ambient techno track _Ship Of The Desert_ MP3 (320k) by System 7 off of _777_ CD on Big Life (1993)
• one of the locations where Pierre Teilhard de Chardin elaborated on _The Divine Milieu_

  

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