| 词条 | Qaidam Basin |
| 释义 |
| float = right | width = 250 | label = Qaidam | lat = 37.266667 |long= 94.45 | mark = Green pog.svg | position = right | caption = Location of Qaidam in China }} }}Qaidam Basin, also spelled Tsaidam ({{lang-mn|Цайдам}},[1] from {{lang-bo|ཚྭའི་འདམ་}},"salt marsh"; {{zh|s=柴达木盆地|t=柴達木盆地|p=Cháidámù Péndì}}) is a hyperarid basin that occupies a large part of the Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province, western China. The basin covers an area of approximately 120,000 km2, one fourth of which is covered by saline lakes and playas.[2] By one count, there are 27 such lakes in the basin.[3] Around 35,000 square kilometers, or one third of the basin is desert, which is known in Chinese as Chaidamu Pendi Shamo (柴达木盆地沙漠), i.e. Qaidam Basin Desert. The Qaidam Basin forms a sort of shelf on the northeast side of the Tibetan Plateau. The Tibetan Plateau is at least {{convert|14,000|ft|m}} above sea level, the Qaidam about {{convert|10,000|ft|m}} and Gansu to the north about {{convert|3,000|ft|m}} to {{convert|4,000|ft|m}}. A low water divide separates the Qaidam Basin proper from that of Qinghai Lake to the east. Orographically, the Qaidam Basin is a comparatively low area in the northeastern part of the Tibetan Plateau.[4]Qaidam is an intermontane basin, i.e. it is surrounded on all sides by mountain ranges.[4] In the south, the Kunlun Mountains separate it from the higher central section of the Tibetan Plateau. In the north, a number of smaller ridges (Shulenanshan, etc.) separate the basin from another higher plateau, which is more known for its northern escarpment, the Qilian Mountains; that entire mountain system is often generically known as Nanshan. In the northwest, the Altyn-Tagh separates the Qaidam Basin from the Kumtagh Desert of southeastern Xinjiang. Three dimensional modeling shows that the basin has been squeezed to an irregular diamond shape since the beginning of Cenozoic. Its formation and evolution is controlled by the Altyn Tagh fault constituting the northern basin boundary.[5]Minerals and miningThe basin's large mineral deposits caused a great deal of investment interest from 2005. It has reserves of asbestos, borax, gypsum, oil and natural gas, and several metals, with the greatest reserves of lithium, magnesium, potassium and sodium of anywhere in China. By one count, the Qaidam basin contains 43 salt lakes, with the total area of 16,509 km2.[6] Just one Qarhan Lake (察尔汗盐湖) contains sixty billion tons of salt. There are 22 oilfields, with estimated reserves of 225 million tons, and 6 gasfields, holding 150 billion cubic metres of gas. The Xining-Golmud rail line (the first stage of the Qinghai–Tibet Railway), which crossed the eastern part of the Qaidam Basin in the early 1980s, is an essential transportation link for accessing the region's mineral resources. As of 2012, additional rail lines are under construction. The construction of the Golmud–Dunhuang Railway started in October 2012; it is expected to be completed within 5 years.[7] In the early 2012, Zangge Potash Co Ltd started the construction of a 25-km private railway from the Chaerhan (Qarhan) station on the Qinghai–Tibet Railway (near the eponymous salt lake) to their facilities nearby.[8] [9]As of the late 2013, preliminary planning is conducted for the Golmud-Korla Railway, which will stretch along the entire western part of the Qaidam Basin as well.[10] Notes1. ^china.org.cn - Salt lakes 2. ^Chen, K., Bowler, J.M., 1986, Late Pleistocene evolution of salt lakes in the Qaidam Basin, Qinghai Province, China. Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology, 54:87-104 3. ^{{citation|title=Geomorphic and chronometric evidence for high lake level history in Gahai Lake and Toson Lake of north-eastern Qaidam Basin, north-eastern Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau|first=Qishun|last=Fan|first2=Haizhou|last2=Ma|first3=Guanchao|last3=Cao|first4=Zongyan|last4=Chen|first5=Shengkui|last5=Cao|journal=Journal of Quaternary Science|year=2012 |volume=27|issue=8|pages=819–827|url=http://english.isl.cas.cn/rh/rp/201212/P020121217613756380716.pdf|bibcode=2012JQS....27..819F|doi=10.1002/jqs.2572}} 4. ^1 {{citation| contribution = Cenozoic tectonic development of the Qaidam Basin in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau| first = Qing-Ren |last=Meng| first2= Xiang |last2=Fang| editor-first = B. C. |editor-last=Burchfiel|editor2-first= Erchie |editor2-last=Wang| publisher = Geological Society of America |year=2008|isbn=978-0-8137-2444-7| title = Investigations into the tectonics of the Tibetan plateau| series = Volume 444 of Special paper - Geological Society of America| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=BligM888ki0C&pg=PA1| pages = 1–2}} 5. ^{{Cite journal|last=Guo|first=Jianming|last2=Wei|first2=Xuebing|last3=Long|first3=Guohui|last4=Wang|first4=Bo|last5=Fan|first5=Hailong|last6=Xu|first6=Shiyang|date=2017-06-02|title=Three-dimensional structural model of the Qaidam basin: Implications for crustal shortening and growth of the northeast Tibet|url=https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/geo.2017.9.issue-1/geo-2017-0015/geo-2017-0015.xml?format=INT|journal=Open Geosciences|volume=9|issue=1|pages=174–185|doi=10.1515/geo-2017-0015|issn=2391-5447|via=|bibcode=2017OGeo....9...15G}} 6. ^About Salt Lakes - Qinghai Institute of Salt Lakes 7. ^格尔木至敦煌铁路开工 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121209023055/http://news.huochepiao.com/2012-10/2012102013240934.htm |date=December 9, 2012 }}, Renmin Tielu Bao, 2012-10-20 8. ^青海格尔木藏格钾肥有限公司铁路专用线项目开工 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120221065803/http://www.fert.cn/news/2012/2/18/20122181633287848.shtml |date=February 21, 2012 }}, 2012-02-18 9. ^China builds railway to benefit fertilizer supply, 2012-02-18 10. ^库尔勒—格尔木铁路项目预可研报告获批 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022043003/http://news.huochepiao.com/2013-9/201393016361164.htm |date=October 22, 2013 }} (Korla-Golmud Railway project preliminary feasibility study report approved), 中华铁道网, 2013-09-30 References
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