A large Middle Pleistocene freshwater to oligohaline lake in the contemporary hyperarid Qaidam Basin (China)

• 来源期刊: 幕-国际地学杂志（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2006,（1）
• 页码范围: 34-38
• 页数: 5页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

The Qaidam Basin (NW China) at the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau is one of the driest places on Earth with mean annual precipitation not exceeding 25mm in the western central part. Flat salt plains and wind-shaped hills characterise the bare ground over thousands of square kilometres. In contrast to presentday conditions, remnants of ancient shorelines in high positions identified by Chen and Bowler (1986) and Hovermann and Süssenberger (1986) about 20 years ago herald of a former large lake but were not investigated further till now.