Discovery of the Ca-Cl type brine in deep aquifers and implications for the shallow giant glauberite deposits in the Lop Nur playa,Tarim Basin,NW China

• 作者: Hua Zhang Peng-cheng Jiao Cheng-lin Liu Hui Yan Fan-kai Zhang Wen-xue Li Yong-mei Yu Lu-sha Wang Yu-fei Hu Li-cheng Wang Li-jian Shen
• 来源期刊: 中国地质（英文）
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（2）
• 所属期刊栏目: Research Advances
• 页码范围: 364-366
• 页数: 3页
• 语种: 中文
• DOI: 10.31035/cg2021018

摘要

1.Objective Lop Nur is currently one of the world 's largest playa and located in the easternmost of the Tarim Basin,northwestern China.It developed unique giant glauberite deposits during the Quaternary,of which analogue with such a scale deposit is rarely seen around the world.Moreover,potassium-rich brine hosted in these glauberite intercrystalline contains a resource of KCl up to 0.25×109 t,supporting the operation of the global largest plant for K2SO4 fertilizer in Lop Nur.It was generally thought that salt materials such as K+,SO24?,and Ca2+ for glauberite deposits and the related potassium-rich brine in Lop Nur mainly originate from river water in the Tarim Basin,due to Lop Nur served as a terminal lake of the basin during the Quaternary (Fig.1).