摘要
The Qaidam Basin is a large intermontane depression. It has been in existence since the Jurassic. The mean elevation of the basin floor is 2800 m. It covers an area of 120,000 km^2 with a catchment area of about 250,000 km^2. By the end of the Pliocene, great changes had taken place. Some of the lakes were evolving to the evaporite formation stage. The deposition continued through the Pliocene and the late Pleistocene to produce a sequence 2000—3000 m thick, and the total thickness of halite sequence is more than 1000 m. The Qaidam Basin contains some of the richest salt resources, the sediments deposited on
