Chabyêr Caka
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Chabyêr Caka Zabuye Salt Flat |
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| Geographical location | Tibet , People's Republic of China | |
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| Coordinates | 31 ° 22 ′ N , 84 ° 3 ′ E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 4430 m | |
| surface | 243 km² | |
| Middle deep | 0.7 m | |
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Tibetan script :
གྲག་ ཡེར་ ཚྭ་ ཁ
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Wylie transliteration : grag yer tshwa kha
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Pronunciation in IPA : [
ʈʂʰapjeː tsʰakʰa ]
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Official transcription of the PRCh : Chabyêr Caka
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Other spellings: Zabuye Caka, Zabuye Salt Lake, Zhabuye Salt Lake
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Simplified :
扎布耶 茶 卡 、 扎布耶 盐湖
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Pinyin : Zhābùyē Chákǎ, Zhābùyē Yánhú
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The Chabyêr Caka or Zabuye Salt Lake is a salt lake in Zhongba , a district in the northwest of the district-free city of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China .
It is located in the Gangdisê Mountains in the interior of the Tibetan Highlands , consists of two basins totaling 243 km² and is on average 70 cm, at the deepest point less than 2 meters deep.
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The lake was identified in 1961 as a borax deposit (boron content of 1.45%). From the 1980s, the lake was intensively investigated. A new mineral was described, the zabuyelite .
In 2005 a lithium carbonate extraction plant was opened.
Geography and climate
The Chabyêr Caka is divided in the middle by a narrow into a northern and a southern part. The southern part is silvery white and dried out, the northern part between 20 cm and 100 cm deep. The mountain Ri`argeliang rises to the west of the lake .
At Chabyêr Caka there is a continental high mountain climate . In summer the temperatures there reach between 5 ° C and 10 ° C. In winter it is very cold, during the day temperatures do not rise above −15 ° C, at night they can drop to −40 ° C. This stops lithium production in winter.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Guójiā cèhuìjú dìmíng yánjiūsuǒ 国家 测绘 局 地名 研究所 (ed.): Zhōngguó dìmínglù - Zhōnghuá rénmín gònghéguó dìtújí suǒyǐn《中国 地 名录 —— 》中华人民共和国 地图集 索引 索引 - 》中华人民共和国 地图集 索引 索引 - Zhōngguó dìtúchū bǎnshè 中国 地图 出版社, Beijing 1997, p. 283.
- ↑ Zheng Mianping: An Introduction to Saline Lakes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau . Kluwer, Dordrecht 1997, passim; on p. 8 also the official spelling “Chabyêr Caka” in brackets.
- ↑ Zabuye (Zhabuye) Salt Lake (Lake Zabuye), Zhongba Co. mindat.org .
- ^ Zhen Nie et al .: Crystallization Path of Salts from Brine in Zabuye Salt Lake, Tibet, During Isothermal Evaporation . 2009
- ^ Lithium 3 ( Memento from February 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) geo-res.net .