Formation of present desert landscape surrounding Jilantai Salt Lake in northern China based on OSL dating.pdfVIP

Front．EarthSci．2015，9(3)：497—508 D0I10．1007／sl1707．014—0482—3 F■一0rmat■l●0n0t，DreSent■d●eSe landscapesurroundingJilantai SaltLakeinnorthernChinabasedonOSLdating YuxinFAN(函)，一，XiaolongCHEN ，WenhaoLIU ，FuZHANG ，FanZHANG 1SchoolofEarthSciencesandKeyLaboratoryofMineralResourcesinWestern ChinaofGnasuProvince，LanzhouUniversity, Lanzhou730000，China 2MOEKeyLaboratory ofW esternChina’sEnvironmentalSystems，CollaborativeInnovationCenterforAridEnvironments andClimateChange，LanzhouUniversity,Lanzhou730000，China ◎HigherEducationPressandSpringer-VerlagBerlinHeidelberg2015 Abstract TheJilantaiSaltLake (JSL)，a lakeof summermonsoondomain(Aneta1．，2005)．Thisregionis importanceduetoitssaltproductionin Chinasincethe also atransitionalbeltbetweenaridand semiaridChina early Oing dynasty,is surrounded by sand dunes． (Wang．1989)．JSLhasbeenanimportantsourceofsalt Explorationofthedevelopmentofthesesandduneswill production，supplyingsalttoadjacentprovinces，suchas behelpfulforidentifyingtheofrcesunderlyingthedesert Shaanxi，Gansu，andShnaxi，sincetheQingDynastyor landscapeandforidentiricingasolutiontoprotectthesalt evenearlier(WnagnadDou．1998)．However,current resources．Through field investigation，we ofund sand production associated wim the JSL isbeing seriously dunesoverlyingeitherlacustrineandbogdepositsonthe affectedbysanddesertinvasion(GengandHu．1989； lakebedataloweraltitudeorli~oralsedimentson the Wan l989；GengandChen，1990)．Somepreviouswork higher lakeshores．Optically Stimulated Luminescence inthisareaindicatesthatsandduneinvasioninhteJSLis rOSL)datingresultsindicatethatsandsstarted to theresultof1argescalehumna activiyt overthepast50 accumulatearoundtheJSLasearlyastheearlyHolocene years(GengandHu，1989，1990；Wang，1989)．Alter- (aroundllka)．whiletherapiddevelopmentofsanddunes nativelyothersutdiesasserthtatthesesanddun eswere occurredwithin the latest0