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General Environmental Condition of the Bamiyan Valley

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Afghanistan is a mountainous country in a dry part of the world, which experiences extremes of climate and weather. Winters are cold and snowy, and summers hot and dry. The wet season generally runs from winter through early spring, but the country on the whole is dry, falling within the Desert or Desert Steppe climate classification. Very little snow falls in the lowland deserts of the southwest, but the snow season averages roughly October to April in the mountains and varies considerably with elevation.

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Delmonaco, G., Margottini, C. (2014). General Environmental Condition of the Bamiyan Valley. In: Margottini, C. (eds) After the Destruction of Giant Buddha Statues in Bamiyan (Afghanistan) in 2001. Natural Science in Archaeology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30051-6_5

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