Abstract
The coexistence of megadunes and interdune lakes is a unique landscape in the Badain Jaran Desert. Its formation mechanism is an open question. Two necessary conditions for a lake are water and basin. Different from various previous works focusing on water source, here, the lake basin origen is investigated. The chronological, geomorphological, and aerodynamic evidences support that the elongated lakes in the southeastern margin of the desert are aeolian lakes.
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This research was supported by Natural Science Foundation of China projects (Nos. 41571006, 41290252,41272191), the cooperation project of Hebei Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. 15001019), and Key Laboratory of Salt Lake Resources and Chemistry project (No. KLSLRC-KF-13-DX-3).
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Wang, ZT., Chen, TY., Liu, SW. et al. Aeolian origen of interdune lakes in the Badain Jaran Desert, China. Arab J Geosci 9, 190 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-015-2062-6
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