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Qaidam

(chī-däm) or

Tsaidam

(tsī`däm, chī-däm), arid basin, c.350 mi (560 km) long and c.100 mi (160 km) wide, between two branches of the Kunlun range, central Qinghai prov., W China. A salt marsh occupies most of the area. Oil fields and refineries are found in W Qaidam, and iron ore is mined in the southern part.

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The Qaidam Basin is the third largest inland basin of China, and covers approximately 250,000 [km.

CHARACTERISTICS AND ACCUMULATION OF MIDDLE JURASSIC OIL SHALE IN THE YUQIA AREA, NORTHERN QAIDAM BASIN, NORTHWEST CHINA

Wu, The Application of Profile Control Technology in Lion Ditch Oilfield in Qaidam Basin, Qinghai ShiYou, 29, 6 (2011).

Synthesis and Performance Evaluation of High-Temperature and High-Salinity Tolerance Polymer Microspheres

Dissolution and its impacts on reservoir formation in moderately to deeply buried strata of mixed siliciclastic-carbonate sediments, northwestern Qaidam basin, Northwest China (in Chinese with English abstract).

Geochemical characteristics and paleoenvironmental significance of the Ordovician paleokarst reservoir in the Maigaiti slope of Tarim Basin

IEDQPA and NIGP (Institute of Exploration and Development of Qinghai Petroleum Administration, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of AcademiaSinica) (1988) 'Tertiary Ostracode Fauna from Qaidam Basin, NW China', Nanjing: Nanjing University Press, pp.

The change of ostracods and biosilicon from Lake Lugu sediment record and the cause analysis in last hundred years

Meanwhile police recovered dead body of a tourist whose car was plunged into the River Swat near Qaidam area on Eid day.

Man killed; body of tourist recovered from River Swat

Wang CW, Hong HL, Song BW, Yin K, Li ZH, Zhang KX, Ji JL (2011) The early-Eocene climate optimum (EECO) event in the Qaidam basin, northwest China: clay evidence.

Characterisation of the hydroxy-interlayered vermiculite from the weathering of illite in Jiujiang red earth sediments

meridianus (Liang, 2007; Li, 2008) prompted us to speculate that this animal in Qaidam Basin might have migrated to the Tibetan Plateau via the Gansu Corridor, which was initially at a lower altitude.

Effects of Change in Altitude on the Auditory Bulla of Midday Gerbil,Meriones meridianus n l g

The State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) said once complete the line proposes to carry wind and solar-generated energy in Jiuquan of Gansu Province, Hami of Xinjiang, and Qaidam Basin in Qinghai Province to the rest of the country.

China : POWER transmission line to reach completion 3 mths of ahead of schedule

The linear dunes in China's Qaidam Basin have been proposed to have formed as self-extending lee dunes under a unidirectional wind regime owing to a high level of total silt, clay, and salt content or cohesiveness of sediments, and they have undergone southward lateral migration at rates of up to 3 m/yr.

'Wind-rift' erosion may have formed linear dunes on Earth and Saturn's moon

The strike direction of the southern part reflects the North Qaidam Thrust Belt (see the lower rose diagram).

A Magnetotelluric Study of the Altyn-Tagh Fault in the North Margin of the Tibetan Plateau

Kapp wondered where the missing material was, so he and his team went to China's Qaidam Basin to collect more information about the yardangs, the history of wind erosion, and dust.

Wind keeps mountains from growing

The team studied gigantic keel-shaped ridges of rock called yardangs in the Qaidam Basin in Central Asia.