Gobi: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Information on the Gobi is available in surveys of explorations in the area: Jack Autrey Dabbs, History of the Discovery and Exploration of Chinese Turkestan (1963), a comprehensive introduction with a bibliography; and Sven Hedin, Central Asia and Tibet, trans. from Swedish, 2 vol. (1903, reissued 1969), and Across the Goby Desert (1931, reprinted 1968; originally published in Swedish, 1928). Other records of archaeological and geographic explorations in the area include Aurel Stein, Ruins of Desert Cathay: Personal Narrative of Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China, 2 vol. (1912, reprinted 1987), and On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks: Brief Narrative of Three Expeditions in Innermost Asia and North-Western China (1933, reissued 1971); Owen Lattimore, Inner Asian Frontiers of China (1940, reprinted 1988); and Peter Hopkirk, Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia (1980). Specific treatments of the Gobi are Mildred Cable, The Gobi Desert (1942, reprinted 1987); Alonzo W. Pond, Climate and Weather in the Central Gobi of Mongolia (1954); and John Man, Gobi: Tracking the Desert (1997). Reports on scientific research in the desert include Michael J. Novacek, Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs (1996); and L.A. Owen et al., “Quaternary Alluvial Fans in the Gobi of Southern Mongolia; Evidence for Neotectonics and Climate Change,” Journal of Quaternary Science, 12, 239–252 (1997).

Guy S. Alitto The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Add new Web site: CORE - Environmental Adaptations of the Gobi Desert Plants in Mongolia: An Example of C4-plants. Jul 05, 2024
Add new Web site: UNESCO World Heritage Convention - Desert Landscapes of the Mongolian Great Gobi. May 03, 2024
Media added. Nov 09, 2021
Add new Web site: Interesting Facts for Kids - Gobi Desert Facts for Kids. Feb 06, 2020
Add new Web site: National Geographic - Gobi Desert. Feb 06, 2020
Corrected display issue. Nov 07, 2017
Added a locator map that depicts the geographic extent of the Gobi. Nov 07, 2017
Updated geologic time data. Nov 07, 2017
Add new Web site: DesertUSA - The Gobi Desert. Feb 28, 2017
Add new Web site: World Wildlife Fund - Gobi Desert, Central Asia. Jul 15, 2013
Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Gobi Desert, Central Asia. Jul 15, 2013
Geologic time data updated. Oct 06, 2009
Bibliography updated. Mar 06, 2009
Article thoroughly revised and updated; photographs added. Mar 06, 2009
Added new Web site: Buzzle.com - Democracy. Jul 08, 2008
Added new Web site: Lonely Planet - Gobi Desert, Asia. Dec 06, 2007
Added new Web site: Buzzle.com - Ileum Function. Dec 06, 2007
Article added to new online database. Jul 26, 1999
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