An Introduction to Saline Lakes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (Hardcover)

Since 1956 the author has been making extensive and detailed investigations of saline lakes on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau. On the basis of large amounts of first-hand data and multidisciplinary analysis, the book deals with the temporal and spatial evolution of the plateau saline lakes and the prospects for inorganic salts and organic resources and their exploitation and protection, as well as the relationships between saline lakes and global changes. This book is one of the first English monographs on saline lakes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau - the "Roof of the World". Compared with books about saline lakes in other areas of the world, this monograph is written in a multidisciplinary, comprehensive and systematic way. It may be used by graduate students, teachers, researchers, field geologists and engineers as a reference book in research, teaching, etc.

General

Imprint:	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Monographiae Biologicae, v. 76
Release date:	August 1997
First published:	August 1997
Authors:	Zheng Mianping
Dimensions:	230mm (L)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	328
ISBN-13:	978-0-7923-4098-0
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Hydrobiology > Freshwater biology, limnology Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > The hydrosphere > Oceanography (seas)
LSN:	0-7923-4098-1
Barcode:	9780792340980

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