Abstract:pollen records from surface soils of the Tianshan Mountains, the Altay Mountains, the Kunlun Mountains, the Tarim Basin and the Jungger Basin in Xinjiang Autonomous Region, northwestern China, were collected from 1986 to 2001. Based on the statistic analysis of content of Picea pollen in these pollen records, we evaluated the major factors such as the distance away from spruce forest, elevation, air current and water course, that influence the content of Picea pollen in surface soils. Relationship between v...