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Poyang and Dongting Lakes, Yangtze River: tributary lakes blocked by main-stem aggradation

During its 6,300-km course from the Tibetan Plateau to the ocean, the Yangtze River is joined by two large lakes: Dongting Lake and Poyang Lake. We explain why these lakes exist. Deglaciation forced the ocean adjacent to the Yangtze mouth to rise ∼120 m. This forced a wave of rising water surface el...

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Autores principales: An, Chenge, Fang, Hongwei, Zhang, Li, Su, Xinyue, Fu, Xudong, Huang, He Qing, Parker, Gary, Hassan, Marwan A., Meghani, Nooreen A., Anders, Alison M., Wang, Guangqian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Academy of Sciences 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9335185/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35858402
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2101384119

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