Geomorphic Characteristics, Spatial Distribution of Paleoshorelines around the Siling Co Area, Central Tibetan Plateau, and the Lake Evolution within the Plateau

详细信息   

• 责任者：Meng Kai (State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution ; Institute of Geology and Geophysics ; Chinese Academy of Sciences ; Beijing 100029 ; China) ; Shi Xuhua
• 刊名：Chinese Journal of Geology
• 出版年：2012
• 卷期：47(3)
• 关键词：湖泊 ; lakes ; 西藏 ; Tibet
• 页码：p.730-745
• 图表：6 illus., 3 tables, 36 refs.
• 分类号：1400
• issnNo：ISSN0563-5020
• isbnNo：CN11-1937/P

摘要

A systematic investigation has been conducted for the first time on paleoshorelines of a single large lake, Siling Co, within the Tibetan Plateau, through analysis of recently-released high-resolution remote sensing imagery and detailed field survey. By synthesizing previous chronology of paleoshorelines preserved around large lakes within Tibet and the analysis of shoreline elevations from this study, the authors suggest that the proposal of a single great paleolake that unified all modern large lakes in the Middle and Eastern Tibet, the so-called “Great East Qiangtang Paleolake”, is questionable; it is more likely that those large paleolakes during Late Pleistocene were connected through river channels.