See also: Tibet (homonymy)

The plate Tibetan or Chang Tang is vast a plate located in central Asia, in the North of the the Himalayas. It was created by the Indian collision of the plates and Eurasian which took out of vice the plates of Qiantang and of Lhassa during the Cénozoïque. It is the greatest topographic structure by far on ground and has important regional climatic effects (aridity of the plate itself, Mousson) and world (world atmospheric circulation).

History

Five explorers partially crossed it. Gabriel Bonvalot in 1890 of North in the South east coast, Bower in 1892 in its Southern part, Mr. Wellby in 1896 of West in Is, Sven Hedin in 1906 of the East towards the south, and finally, more recently, Michel Peissel and its team into 2000 which explored the North-West of Chang Tang, hitherto unknown of any man or geographical map.

Fauna

The fauna of this plate is at the same time rich and fragile. One counts hundreds of species of animals; among them the Yak, the Gazelle, the Kiang (the greatest race with the garot of wild horse) and the Moutons are in great number in spite of the aridity of the ground. One finds also the Antilope of Tibet, whose horns of the male make more twice size of the expèce to the garot, and who were pursued during last century for their skin, allowing the factory of the shatoosh (almost invisible fabric by its large smoothness).

Richnesses

Chang Tang abounds in many lakes from which one extracts the salt in great quantity, often with average the quite decayed ones. Certain Chinese come there to find Or successfully.

Its basement is also rich in oil and gas.