Nihewan Basin

The Nihewan Basin or the Nihewan Depression is located in the transition area between the North China Lowlands and the Inner Mongolia Plateau about 200 km west of Beijing in the border area of ​​the Hebei and Shanxi provinces .

It is after the village Nihewan in China named Hebei Province, the most Sanggan River in the east of the circle Yang Yuan of prefecture-level city of Zhangjiakou is.

The basin belongs to the Shanxi rift system that formed as a series of intermontane basins in the Middle to Late Pleistocene. It is filled with late Pliocene to Holocene lacustric , fluvial and wind-transported sediments . The Nihewan Formation comprises the entire fluvio-lacustric sequence in the Nihewan Basin, which is overlaid by wind-blown loess sediments of the Holocene and / or the last Ice Age and / or the Warm Period and underlaid with late Pliocene red clay of Aeolian origin.

Determining the time sequence of the Nihewan Formation of the Nihewan Basin, rich in mammalian faunas and Paleolithic sites (see main article Nihewan ), is crucial for an understanding of a number of important questions about early human adaptability to extreme environmental conditions in high northern latitudes, the filling process of the Nihewan Basin. Basin and the chronological order of the Nihewan fauna .

literature

• Robin Dennell : The Palaeolithic Settlement of Asia. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge – New York – Melbourne 2009.
• Zhu Rixiang 朱 日 祥, Deng Chenglong 邓成龙, Pan Yongxin 潘永信: Nihewan pendi cixing diceng dingnian yu caoqi renlei yanhua 泥 河湾 盆地 磁性 地层 定 年 与 早期 人类 演化 ( Magnetochronology of the Fluvio-Lacustrine Sequences for in the. Its Nihewan Implications in the Human Colonization of Northeast Asia ). Disiji yanjiu第四紀 研究 (Quaternary Sciences), Vol. 27 No. 6 (2007/11), pp. 922-944

See also

• Nihewan
• Xiaochangliang
• Infill

Web links

• The Site of Nihewan - English
• Nihewan pendi - Chinese
• The Palaeolithic Site in Yujiagou, Nihewan Basin, Yangyuan County, Hebei Province - English
• Chenglong Deng, Rixiang Zhu, Rui Zhang, Hong Ao, Yongxin Pan: Timing of the Nihewan formation and faunas. In: Quaternary Research, 69, 2008, pp. 77-90. doi : 10.1016 / j.yqres.2007.10.006

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chinese   泥 河湾 盆地 , Pinyin Nihewan pendi , English Nihewan Basin
2. ↑ Chinese   泥 河灣  /  泥 河湾 , Pinyin Níhéwān , W.-G. Ni-ho-wan / Nihowan
3. ↑ Dennell 2009, 167 after Li et al. 1998
4. ↑ According to Zhu Rixiang, Deng Chenglong, Pan Yongxin (see web link under Ref.).

Coordinates: 40 ° 15 ′ 22 "  N , 114 ° 37 ′ 51.1"  E