Lake-level history of Qinghai Lake on the NE Tibetan Plateau and its implications for Asian monsoon pattern-A review

C Huang, Z Lai, X Liu, D Madsen - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
The paper presents a comprehensive review on lake-level history of Qinghai Lake since
marine isotope stage (MIS) 5, after re-examining the sedimentary and geomorphological …

Holocene hydrological history of a Tibetan glacier-fed lake Taro Co in response to climate change

C Huang, Y Guo, L Yu, M Cao, H Tu, Z Lai - Catena, 2023 - Elsevier
Lake hydrological fluctuations on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) are highly sensitive to global
climate change, which can be reconstructed directly by dating paleoshorelines representing …

Travel to Mars-like Places on earth: A new branch of sustainable ecotourism in Lut Desert World Heritage Site, Iran

A Ghorbani, A Zangiabadi, H Mousazadeh… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Traveling to space and walking on other planets has always been a great dream for many
tourists. Given that space tourism is not available to everyone, adventurers have always …

Episodic sediment accumulation linked to global change in the endorheic Qaidam Basin of the Tibetan Plateau revealed by feldspar luminescence dating

Z Ding, S Gong, G Xiao, Y Wang, W Yuan… - Quaternary …, 2024 - Elsevier
Given its high accumulation rate in sediments, the endorheic basin in arid regions plays a
crucial role in reconstructing paleo-environment. However, it would not provide high …

[HTML][HTML] Recognition of sedimentary rock occurrences in satellite and aerial images of other worlds—Insights from Mars

KS Edgett, R Sarkar - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Sedimentary rocks provide records of past surface and subsurface processes and
environments. The first step in the study of the sedimentary rock record of another world is to …

Yeast diversity in the Qaidam Basin desert in China with the description of five new yeast species

XY Wei, HY Zhu, L Song, RP Zhang, AH Li, QH Niu… - Journal of Fungi, 2022 - mdpi.com
The Qaidam Basin is the highest and one of the largest and driest deserts on Earth. It is
considered a mars analog area in China. In contrast to numerous studies concerning its …

Reassessment of the volumes of sediment sources and sinks on Venus

TM Ganey, MS Gilmore, J Brossier - The Planetary Science …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The dominant source of sediment on Venus is thought to be impact cratering, wherein crater
ejecta is redistributed across the planet by winds. Here we provide a refined global sediment …

Spatiotemporal model for the evolution of a mega-yardang system in the foreland of the Russian Altai

S Pötter, F Lehmkuhl, J Weise, VS Zykina, VS Zykin - Aeolian Research, 2023 - Elsevier
The foreland of the Russian Altai is dominated by the vast Ob loess plateau. The flat
landscape exhibits striking linear features, partially more than 100 km in length and tens of …

Landform evolution of Oudemans crater and its bounding plateau plains on Mars: Geomorphological constraints on the Tharsis ice-cap hypothesis

A Yin, S Moon, M Day - Icarus, 2021 - Elsevier
In this study we address the question of whether the Tharsis rise that occupies~ 25% of the
surface area of Mars was once covered by an ice cap, and the sudden ice-cap melting was …

[HTML][HTML] Red Sea tectonics unveil one of the largest terrestrial ice streams: New constraints on Late Ordovician ice sheet dynamics

MS Elhebiry, M Sultan, AZ Abotalib, AE Kehew… - Earth and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Mega-streamlined landforms on Earth and Mars have been attributed to aeolian,
glaciogenic, fluvial, and tectonic processes. Identifying the forces that shaped these …