Talk:Thar Desert

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message: there seems to be some text missing in the first para. Also a source is not cited.
All the trees, herbs and animals are in latin!!! what do i do.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dimmarulz (talk • contribs) 02:10, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
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message: Origin of Thar desert is not clear. If we do linguistic analysis it can probably help. I tried to find word Thar in Hindi language and local Rajasthani language. Hindi language does not have word 'Thar'(थार). Rajasthani language has a word 'Thara' (थारा) means yours. It seems not connected. Rajasthani language has a word "Thal" (थाल)  used for a large flat shallow dish. 'Thal' (थाल) is also used for 'basin of a river'. Similar word may be 'Tal' which means a flat hard land within sandy areas. In this area "R" and "L" are frequently interchangable. It seems that 'Thar' is developed from  'Thal' (थाल)- 'basin of a river'.
Can its origin be traced in other languages like like persian ? burdak 04:47, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
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message: 00850008.JPG appears to be the Qatari desert since the original uploader added it to Qatar. Pretzelpaws 22:12, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The image is illustrative and we can keep it here till we get a good image from Thar desert. burdak 15:56, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
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message: It'll be great if there's a geography map of the desert.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by John010117 (talk • contribs) 04:59, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
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message: The second sentence in this article states that "With an area of more than 200,000 sq. km.,[1] (77,000 sq. mi.) it is world's seventh largest desert". The first statement is correct, it is 200,000 sq kilo's. However, according to "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deserts_by_area", that puts it at 18th largest desert. I will fix this unless anyone has an explanation.- Funga (talk) 01:49, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
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message: This is a fascinating article but relies almost exclusively on the following citation:
Gupta: Rajasthan Jyankosh, Rajasthani Granthagar, Jodhpur, 2008, , p.216
However, the ISBN listed is not registered nor can I find this book title anywhere. I would be delighted to see this book and hope the correct information can be quickly provided.
GeorgeMCarter (talk) 19:15, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
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message: The ISBN as printed on the book is correct. I have got a copy of it. The book is in Hindi language and title is राजस्थान  ज्ञानकोष . Literally it means 'Encyclopaedia of Rajasthan'. The word  ज्ञान is generally transliterated as 'Jñān'. The Publisher  - Rajasthani Granthagar, Jodhpur  has written equivalent title in English as - Rajasthan Gyan-kosh.burdak (talk) 05:04, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
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message: Hi, It may be a matter of a single digit--if you look here: http://www.isbn-international.org/ia/isbncvt - and type in the number, it doesn't come up. It looks like there is one too many digits...what is the title of the English-language version? Is it available only in India? Thanks for your help in looking into this.
GeorgeMCarter (talk) 01:36, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
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message: The above is a mirror and an unreliable source, per Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_84#New_World_Encyclopedia_is_not_a_reliable_source. For some reason, we had credited it in this article. The credit seems to be related to around April 2007 & so there is an argument that we need to revert this article to that date, since NWE adjust our stuff for their own POV purposes.
I cannot see an easy way out of this, while retaining genuine info added here since that time. Can anyone? - Sitush (talk) 03:05, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
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message: In the opening paragraph, it says, and I quote: "This desert spreads over about 2,340,000 km2 (900,000 sq mi),". According to the "List of Deserts by Area" page, the Thar only has an area of 200,000km. Perhaps the writer got confused with the Indian notation, where it would be written 2,00,000. However, that would still not explain the extra 34,000 km2. Currently, according to this article the Thar has an area greater than that of Rajasthan and Pakistan combined and approximately two thirds of the total area of India. I suggest looking at the sources and citations to see if the writer has indeed become confused with the Indian notation.Awesomeshreyo (talk) 12:34, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
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message: I believe Pokhran in the Thar Desert was the site for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Smiling_Buddha Smiling Buddha, India's first nuclear detonation. I'm surprised that this is not included in a page about the Thar Desert.
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message: The Thar Desert, also known as the Great Indian Desert, is a large arid region in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent that covers an area of 200,000 km2 (77,000 sq mi) and forms a natural boundary between India and Pakistan. It is the world's 20th-largest desert, and the world's 9th-largest hot subtropical desert.
Thar Desert
Great Indian Desert
Thar Desert in Rajasthan, India
Map of the Thar Desert ecoregion
EcologyRealmIndomalayanBiomedeserts and xeric shrublandsBordersNorthwestern thorn scrub forests and Rann of Kutch seasonal salt marshGeographyArea238,254 km2 (91,990 sq mi)CountriesIndia and Pakistanstates of India & provinces of PakistanRajasthan, Gujarat, Haryana, Punjab (India), Punjab and Sindh (Pakistan)Coordinates27°N 71°EConservationConservation statusvulnerable[1]Protected41,833 km² (18%)[2]
About 85% of the Thar Desert is in India, and about 15% is in Pakistan.[3] The Thar Desert is about 4.56% of the total geographic area of India. More than 60% of the desert lies in the Indian state of Rajasthan; the portion in India also extends into Gujarat, Punjab, and Haryana. The portion in Pakistan extends into the provinces of Sindh[4] and Punjab (the portion in the latter province is referred to as the Cholistan Desert). 106.217.49.60 (talk) 14:02, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
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The Thar Desert, also known as the Great Indian Desert, is a large arid region in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent that covers an area of 200,000 km2 (77,000 sq mi) and forms a natural boundary between India and Pakistan. It is the world's 20th-largest desert, and the world's 9th-largest hot subtropical desert.
Thar Desert
Great Indian Desert
Thar Desert in Rajasthan, India
Map of the Thar Desert ecoregion
EcologyRealmIndomalayanBiomedeserts and xeric shrublandsBordersNorthwestern thorn scrub forests and Rann of Kutch seasonal salt marshGeographyArea238,254 km2 (91,990 sq mi)CountriesIndia and Pakistanstates of India & provinces of PakistanRajasthan, Gujarat, Haryana, Punjab (India), Punjab and Sindh (Pakistan)Coordinates27°N 71°EConservationConservation statusvulnerable[1]Protected41,833 km² (18%)[2]
About 85% of the Thar Desert is in India, and about 15% is in Pakistan.[3] The Thar Desert is about 4.56% of the total geographic area of India. More than 60% of the desert lies in the Indian state of Rajasthan; the portion in India also extends into Gujarat, Punjab, and Haryana. The portion in Pakistan extends into the provinces of Sindh[4] and Punjab (the portion in the latter province is referred to as the Cholistan Desert).
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GeographyEdit
A NASA satellite image of the Thar Desert, with the India–Pakistan border
View of the Thar Desert
The northeastern part of the Thar Desert lies between the Aravalli Hills. The desert stretches to Punjab and Haryana in the north, to the Great Rann of Kutch along the coast, and to the alluvial plains of the Indus River in the west and northwest. Much of the desert area is covered by huge, shifting sand dunes that receive sediments from the alluvial plains and the coast. The sand is highly mobile due to the strong winds that rise each year before the onset of the monsoon. The Luni River is the only river in the desert.[5] Rainfall is 100 to 500 mm (4 to 20 in) per year, almost all of it between June and September.[3]
Saltwater lakes within the Thar Desert include the Sambhar, Kuchaman, Didwana, Pachpadra, and Phalodi in Rajasthan and Kharaghoda in Gujarat. These lakes receive and collect rainwater during monsoon and evaporate during the dry season. The salt comes from the weathering of rocks in the region.[6]
Lithic tools belonging to the prehistoric Aterian culture of the Maghreb have been discovered in Middle Paleolithic deposits in the Thar Desert.[7]
ClimateEdit
The climate is arid and subtropical. Average temperature varies with season, and extremes can range from near-freezing in the winter to more than 50º C in the summer months. Average annual rainfall ranges from 100 to 500 mm, and occurs during the short July-to-September southwest monsoon.[1]
The desert has both a very dry part (the Marusthali region in the west) and a semidesert part (in the east) that has fewer sand dunes and slightly more precipitation.[8]
Desertification controlEdit
Greening desert with plantations of jojoba at Fatehpur, Shekhawati
Checking of shifting sand dunes through plantations of Acacia tortilis near Laxmangarh town
Indira Gandhi Canal flowing in Thar Desert near Sattasar village, Bikaner district, Rajasthan
The soil of the Thar Desert remains dry for much of the year, so it is prone to wind erosion. High-velocity winds blow soil from the desert, depositing some of it on neighboring fertile lands, and causing sand dunes within the desert to shift. To counteract this problem, sand dunes are stabilised by first erecting microwindbreak barriers with scrub material and then by afforestation of the treated dunes - planting the seedlings of shrubs (such as phog, senna, and castor oil plant) and trees (such as gum acacia, 106.217.49.60 (talk) 14:05, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
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message: Please correct map of India showing PoK as well as LoC parts as disputed but WITHIN INDIA. 114.79.167.253 (talk) 05:28, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
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message: In order to help make this a more properly encyclopedic article, shouldn't we explain the etymology of this toponym (from Hindi थार)? 76.190.213.189 (talk) 01:49, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
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