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2002 An Investigation on Evaporating Experiments for Qinghai Lake Water,China SUN Da-peng, LI Bing-xiao, MA Yu-hua, LIU Qun-zhu (Qinghai Institute of Salt Lakes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining 810008, China) Abstract: Qinghai Lake is located in the northeastern part of Qinghai-Xizang(Tibet)Plateau, and it is a typical continental brackish-water lake. The lake water belongs to sodium sulphate subtype with a salinity of 14.07g/l, and obviously differs from seawater in chemical composition. It is saturated by CaCO3 and aragonite is separating out. In order to reveal the evolving tendency of the lake water, salt-separating sequences and forming conditions of various salt deposits, we took a large amount of lake-water near the southern bank of the lake and carried out the evaporating and freezing-evaporating experiments. The evaporating experimental results show that, hydromagnesite is first separated with the lake-water being concentrated, and then halite, the- nardite, bloedite, picromerite, epsomite, sylvite and camallite precipitated successively. The results of freezing evaporation show that, first hydromagnesite, and then mirabilite, nesquchonite, halite, epsomite, camallite and bischofite separated, respectively . The final mother liquid of those experiments were preserved for 1-2 months(in laboratory) and borates were precipitated. The above salt-separating sequence and crystallization pathway obviously differ from those of seawater. and are similar to some saline lakes on Qinghai-Xizang(Tibet)Plateau and some ancient lake basins of Tertiary in the eastern China, such as Dalongtan Playa(Qaidam Basin)and Dawenkou Basin (Shandong province) etc. Therefore, these experimental results are very important for illustrating the evolving tendency of t