Talas Alatau
Talas Alatau,
mountains, Asia: see AlatauAlatauor Ala-Tau
[Turkic,=mottled mountains], several ranges of the Tian Shan system in central Asia. The Alatau ranges are the Dzungarian, the Kungei, the Talas, the Terskei, and the Trans-Ili; all except the Talas Alatau rise to more than 16,000 ft (4,880 m).
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Talas Alatau
(also Talas Alatoo), a mountain range in the Tien-Shan, situated mainly in the Kirghiz SSR. The Talas Alatau separates the Talas Valley from the ranges and valleys of the Western Tien-Shan and from the western part of the Inner Tien-Shan. The range measures approximately 270 km in length and rises to an elevation of 4,482 m at Mount Manas. It is composed primarily of schists and granites. The crest is craggy, and glaciers are encountered. Landforms include rocky highlands, high mountain meadows, and subalpine and alpine meadow steppes. The slopes have steppe and forest-meadow-steppe landforms.