Excursions to the Tian Shan mountains, Kyrgyzia

July - August 1997

Field work on soil and landscape evolution of the Alay Range, Kyrgyzia. Flight to Tashkent, Uzbekistan, by truck to the Fergana Valley and by 

July - August 1998

Field work on soil and landscape evolution of the Turkestan Range, Kyrgyzia.

Some impressions of this beautiful country:

 

 

Abramov glacier at 4000 m above sea level

 

 

Abramov glacier snout

 

 

 

Typical field work for evaluation of soil genesis and landscape evolution: Digging a soil profile and description of pedogenic horizons, fossil horizons etc.

 
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