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September,2011 JournalofResourcesandEcology V_01．2NO．3 J．Resour．Eco1．20112(3)193—201 DOI：10．3969／i．issn。1674-764x．2011．03．001 www．jorae．cn A StudyofKumtagDesert：ProgressesandAchievements WANG Feng’CHUJianmin，WANGXuequan’CUIXianghui’WU Bo’YANGWenbin’andLUQi’ ， ， ， ， lInstituteofDesertificationSutdies，ChineseAcademyofForestry,Beijnig100091，China； 2ResearchInstituteofForestry,ChineseAcademyofForestry,Beijing100091，China Abstract：TheKumtagDesert．thefourth largestsand desertcoveredmainlybymobiledunesand shifting sands．hadremainedasthe lastuntouched naturaldeserttobefully investigatedin ascientificway． Therefore． “IntegratedScientificExpeditionofthe Kumtag DesertProgramme”waslistedasone of ninekeyresearchprogrammesofChinaNationalScienceandTechnologyBasicResearch Programmes inDecember，2006．The expeditionteam carried outtwo large—scaleand multidisciplinary scientific expeditionsfrom June2007toDecember2009，totheKumtagDesertandcollectedmorethan20setsof field samplesand groundobservations．Finally．the expedition team completednotonly systematicand integratedscientificexpeditionoftheKumtagDesertandfilled inthegapofthelastunexploreddesertin China．butalsogainedfruitfulresearchresultsinmanyscientificresearchsubjects．Theseresearchresults includedthat：(i)A uniqueaeolianlandform unit，sand—gravel—moraine，developedintheKumtagDesert． wasdefinedandnamedforthefirsttime．andthemorphologiccharacteristicsoffeather—like1ongitudinal sandduneanditsformationprocessareinitiallyproved；(ii)Twosourcesandmineralelementcomposition ofthesurfacesedimentationoftheKumtagDesertwasdetermined．andthecharacteristicsofthedesert sedimentationandstratum chronologyoftheLaterCenozoicErawasillustrated；(iii)Thechronology ofthepaleo—aeolian sandwasessentially determin