Lake retreat in the Qinghai-Xizang plateau with additional reference to its climatic significance

Chen Zhiming

doi:10.1007/BF02843989

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Lake retreat in the Qinghai-Xizang plateau with additional reference to its climatic significance

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- Lake retreat in the Qinghai-Xizang plateau with additional reference to its climatic significance
- Lake retreat in the Qinghai-Xizang plateau with additional reference to its climatic significance
- 海洋湖沼学报（英文） 1987年5卷第3期页码：251-262
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  Nanjing Institute of Geography Academia Sinica
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  Thanks are due to the No. 2 Institute of Oceanography of SOA for its analyses of C;14;dating specimens.;This paper was published in Chinese in;Oceanologia et Limnologia Sinica;17;(3): 207–216, 1986.
- DOI：10.1007/BF02843989
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- 纸质出版：1987
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Lake retreat in the Qinghai-Xizang plateau with additional reference to its climatic significance[J]. 海洋湖沼学报（英文）, 1987,5(3):251-262.

Zhiming, C. Lake retreat in the Qinghai-Xizang plateau with additional reference to its climatic significance., Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 5, 251–262 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02843989
Lake retreat in the Qinghai-Xizang plateau with additional reference to its climatic significance[J]. 海洋湖沼学报（英文）, 1987,5(3):251-262. DOI： 10.1007/BF02843989.

Zhiming, C. Lake retreat in the Qinghai-Xizang plateau with additional reference to its climatic significance., Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 5, 251–262 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02843989 DOI：

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Abstract

The author made an approximate dating of the highest shorelines of the three larger interior lakes and proved that during late Q3 or early Q4

there existed a higher lake level in the plateau

reflecting that the climate then was much more moist than it is today. It could be presumed from a study of these two ages that such higher lake levels correspond with both the last glacial epoch (i. e.

the latter half) and the lowest sea level of the East China Sea then. Moreover

interpretations of aerial photos and an on-the-spot survey revealed that since then these lakes had 8–10 rhythms of retreat

indicating that the climate in central Asia and the plateau at that time had 8–10 comparatively arid periods. As the plateau is still in the faster process of upheaval

it is expected that on a longterm basis

the climate in this region will tend to be continuously dry. However

should there be a neo-glacial epoch in the world

and if the higher lake level really corresponds to the glacial epoch

then in the not distant future

the lake level will possibly rise again to some extent.

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