黄河碎屑物质和中国西北沙漠/沙地存在物源联系吗？

林旭; 李长安

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Lin Xu, Li Chang’an, 2022. Are Detrital Materials from the Yellow River Associated with Desert/Sandy Land Provenances in Northwest China?. Earth Science, 47(10): 3633-3647. doi: 10.3799/dqkx.2022.206

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Lin Xu, Li Chang’an, 2022. Are Detrital Materials from the Yellow River Associated with Desert/Sandy Land Provenances in Northwest China?. Earth Science, 47(10): 3633-3647. doi: 10.3799/dqkx.2022.206

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Are Detrital Materials from the Yellow River Associated with Desert/Sandy Land Provenances in Northwest China?

doi: 10.3799/dqkx.2022.206

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School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, China Three Gorges University, Yichang 443002, China
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School of Geography and Information Engineering, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430078, China
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Collaborative Innovation Center for Geo-Hazards and Eco-Environment in Three Gorges Area, China Three Gorges University, Yichang 443002, China

Received Date: 2024-04-07
Publish Date: 2022-10-25

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There are large areas of desert/sandy land located in the interior of Northwest China. To determine their material origin is crucial to understand the formation and development of these deserts. Especially, it is controversial whether the detrital materials in Tengger, Hedong, Mu Us, Ulan Buhe and Kubuqi deserts and sand lands come from the distant Yellow River or the near source area. In view of this, it carried out in-situ Pb isotopic analyses of detrital K-feldspar grains (n=554) widely found in these deserts to determine whether there is a provenance relationship with the upper reaches of the Yellow River. Combined with the published Pb isotopic compositions of detrital K-feldspar from the upper Yellow River and provenance tracing results in the region, the results show that the detrital material from the upper Yellow River mainly affected the Tengger Desert in a limited local area, but did not penetrate into the desert hinterland. The material in the upper reach of the Yellow River is not related to Hedong sand land, Mu Us sand land, Ulan Buhe desert and Kubuqi desert. The material of these deserts/sandy lands in Northwest China was mainly derived from near source area, which is a sedimentary process response to the uplift of the Tibetan plateau and climatic drought since the Early Pleistocene.
- Yellow River,
- desert,
- K-feldspar,
- Pb isotope,
- provenance tracing,
- stratigraphy

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