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Dongling

potash-bearing brine in China

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CountryChina
Location:94.8287, 37.283
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Site typearea
Deposit typepotash-bearing brine
Evaporite basinQinghai
Basin typecontinental closed basin
Age
Cenozoic
Quaternary
Pleistocene-Holocene
Upper Pleistocene-[recent]
Minimum:Cenozoic-Quaternary-Holocene
Maximum:Cenozoic-Quaternary-Pleistocene-Upper Pleistocene
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Minerals
Potassium minerals:
Geologic map unit94.8287, 37.283
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StatusNot Determined

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Comments

Surface water has average depth of 0.05 m.

References

Yang Qian, 1986, The geological characteristics of the potash deposit of the Qarhan inland salt lake in Qaidam Basin, China, in Workshop on Occurrence, Exploration and Development of Fertilizer Minerals, Fertilizer minerals in Asia and the Pacific: Bangkok, Thailand, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), Mineral concentrations and hydrocarbon accumulations in the ESCAP region, v. 1, p. 181-190.