Gêrzê

English

Map including GÊRZÊ (KAI-TSE) (DMA, 1980)

Alternative forms

• Gerze
• Gertse

Etymology

From Tibetan སྒེར་རྩེ་ (sger rtse).

Proper noun

Gêrzê

1. A county of Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
   • 1992, The Paleoclimate of China‎^[1], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 63:

     Also in Totalashan of Rutog and the area to the north of Gêrzê of Tibet there appear corals with dissepiment like Polythecalis, Chusenophyllum and Wentzellophyllum.

   • [1992, Jim Reynolds, The Outer Path: Finding my way in Tibet‎^[2], Sunnyvale, Cali.: Fair Oaks Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 90:

     Gerzê is really the end of the world. It is situated in the middle of an empty desert, and I can't imagine why anyone ever stopped to build a town here. Except for a few nondescript Chinese concrete buildings, all the walls and houses are made from mud bricks and everything— the houses, the road, even the surrounding countryside—is the same light brown color. Beyond the town, emptiness stretches to the horizon.]

   • 2012, Du Wenjuan, Tales from Tibet‎^[3], →ISBN, →OCLC, page [4]:

     Ge Yi was from Chabug Village in Gêrzê County. Before he became Party branch secretary of Nuxtiu Village, his family had more than 400 sheep and 100 yak, making them one of the wealthy families in the village.

   • 2015 October 24, Luo Shenglong, Wang Genhou, Gao Jinhan, Wang Xunlian, Xiao Hongji, “Age of the Purported Zhanjin Formation in Gêrzê County, Tibet: A New Understanding and Its Significance”, in Acta Geologica Sinica‎^[5], →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 January 2021‎^[6]:

     The Upper Carboniferous Zhanjin Formation has attracted much attention from geoscientists for containing glacial–marine diamictite and cold‐water fauna typified by the bivalve Eurydesma. The presence of this Formation has provided important evidence for determining the northern border of Gondwana. Previous researchers have classified those strata north of Niangrong Co in the Gêrzê region as part of the Zhanjin Formation based on the presence of glacial–marine diamictite, although the absence of biological fossil evidence has defied clear age determination.

2. A town in Gêrzê County, Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Gaize, Kai-tse

Translations

county; town

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 改則／改则 (zh) (Gǎizé)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Tibetan: སྒེར་རྩེ་ (sger rtse)