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Contributions of modern Gobi Desert to the Badain Jaran Desert and the Chinese Loess Plateau

It is well known that the Gobi Desert is the dominant source area of the Badain Jaran Desert (BJD) and the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP). However, due to the absence of quantitative analyses, there are nearly no exact assessments of its actual contribution. Combinations of field investigations, wind t...

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Autores principales: Wang, Xunming, Cai, Diwen, Sun, Jimin, Lu, Huayu, Liu, Wenbin, Qiang, Mingrui, Cheng, Hong, Che, Huizheng, Hua, Ting, Zhang, Caixia
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6353923/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30700770
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-37635-y
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author Wang, Xunming
Cai, Diwen
Sun, Jimin
Lu, Huayu
Liu, Wenbin
Qiang, Mingrui
Cheng, Hong
Che, Huizheng
Hua, Ting
Zhang, Caixia
author_facet Wang, Xunming
Cai, Diwen
Sun, Jimin
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Liu, Wenbin
Qiang, Mingrui
Cheng, Hong
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description It is well known that the Gobi Desert is the dominant source area of the Badain Jaran Desert (BJD) and the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP). However, due to the absence of quantitative analyses, there are nearly no exact assessments of its actual contribution. Combinations of field investigations, wind tunnel experiments, and wind field analyses revealed that the potential erosion depth on modern Gobi Desert varied between 0.41 and 0.89 mm a(−1). Results indicated it would take an average theoretical time of 80.8 ka and 4,475.9 ka to form the current dimensions of the BJD and CLP, respectively, which means the Gobi Desert may provide substantial sand sources to the modern BJD, while its contribution to the loess of modern CLP might be overestimated despite it was the key sources of the CLP in Quaternary.
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spelling pubmed-63539232019-01-31 Contributions of modern Gobi Desert to the Badain Jaran Desert and the Chinese Loess Plateau Wang, Xunming Cai, Diwen Sun, Jimin Lu, Huayu Liu, Wenbin Qiang, Mingrui Cheng, Hong Che, Huizheng Hua, Ting Zhang, Caixia Sci Rep Article It is well known that the Gobi Desert is the dominant source area of the Badain Jaran Desert (BJD) and the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP). However, due to the absence of quantitative analyses, there are nearly no exact assessments of its actual contribution. Combinations of field investigations, wind tunnel experiments, and wind field analyses revealed that the potential erosion depth on modern Gobi Desert varied between 0.41 and 0.89 mm a(−1). Results indicated it would take an average theoretical time of 80.8 ka and 4,475.9 ka to form the current dimensions of the BJD and CLP, respectively, which means the Gobi Desert may provide substantial sand sources to the modern BJD, while its contribution to the loess of modern CLP might be overestimated despite it was the key sources of the CLP in Quaternary. Nature Publishing Group UK 2019-01-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6353923/ /pubmed/30700770 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-37635-y Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6353923/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30700770
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