Qarhan Salt Lake
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| Lake Dabsan is part of the Qarhan Salt Lake in the Qaidam Basin | ||
| Geographical location | Qinghai ( PR China ) | |
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| Coordinates | 37 ° 1 ' N , 95 ° 10' E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 2670 m | |
| surface | 5 800 km² | |
| length | 160 km | |
| width | 40 km | |
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The Qarhan Salt Lake (or Chaerhan Salt Lake or Cha'erhan Salt Lake and others; Chinese 察尔汗 盐湖 or 察尔汗 盐池) is a salt lake in the west of the Chinese province of Qinghai in the south of the Qaidam basin .
Qarhan is the GNC transcription of the local Mongolian name, originally derived from the word for "white" (modern Mongolian цагаан tsagaan , or ᠴᠠᠭᠠᠨ čaɣan ).
Its official Chinese spelling is Chá'ěrhàn yánhú . It is the largest salt lake in China. It is located in the area of Dulan County and Golmud City of the Haixi Autonomous District of the Mongols and Tibetans, and is 60 kilometers north of Golmud City. It is an important potassium chloride - deposit . The amount of sodium chloride it contains could meet human needs for a thousand years.
In east-west direction it extends over more than 160 km, in north-south direction over 20–40 km, its salt layers are 2 to 20 m thick, its area is 5,800 square kilometers, it is 2670 m above sea level.
The Golmud to Dunhuang Road and a section of the Lhasa Railway run over its salt layers.
In former times it was a single large lake, today it consists of several parts, u. a. the Dabusun Lake ( 达布逊湖 Dabuxun Hu ), 37 ° 1 '10 " N , 95 ° 9' 49" O and the Southern and Northern Hulsan Lake ( 霍鲁逊湖Huoluxun Hu ), 36 ° 54 '53 " N , 95 ° 55 '52" O .
The Qarhan Salt Lake Golmud is a state-owned Chinese mine park .
Web links
- Development of the salt lake in the Chaidam basin
- Qarhan (Chaerhan) Salt lake, Dulan Co., Haixi Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai (Chinghai) Province, China
- Across the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
- The salt bridge across the Qarhan Salt Lake
- Qairhan, largest salt lake in China
- Salt Bridge
- Wangzhang Salt Road Bridge