Lop Nur or Lop Nor (Oirat: ᠯᠣ᠊ᠫ ᠨᡇᡇᠷ , romanized: Lob nuur , from an Oirat Mongolic name meaning "Lop Lake", where "Lop" is a toponym of unknown origin [ 1 ] ) is a now largely dried-up salt lake formerly located within the Lop Depression in the eastern fringe of the Tarim Basin in the southeastern portion of the Xinjiang ...

Lop Nur, former saline lake in northwestern China that is now a salt-encrusted lake bed. It lies within the Tarim Basin of the eastern Takla Makan Desert, in the Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, and is one of the most barren areas of China.

Located in China’s resource-rich but moisture-poor Xinjiang autonomous region, Lop Nur is an uninviting location for any kind of agriculture. It sits at the eastern end of the Taklimakan Desert, where marching sand dunes can reach heights of 200 meters (650 feet), and dust storms rage across the landscape.

Lop Nur (Chinese: 罗布泊; pinyin: Luóbùpō) is a largely dried-up salt lake located in the eastern portion of the Tarim Basin in southeastern Xinjiang, China, between the Taklamakan Desert and Kumtag Desert. The lake historically supported a thriving civilization along the Silk Road, but it has mostly dried up due to damming and diversion of rivers.

2022年4月1日 · Our data show that Lop Nur, which initially covered an area of more than 11,602 km 2, started to shrink at 360 C.E. and eventually vanished around 500 C.E. Chronologic studies in adjacent regions supported our conclusion that the main cause of the disappearance of Lop Nur is climate change, and human activities (Mischke et al., 2017) may ...

2023年12月20日 · Geospatial context: nuclear weapons testing at Lop Nur Lop Nur (), also known as Lop Nor, is a dried lakebed within a remote desert region located in the People's Republic of China's Xinjiang...

2022年11月3日 · Protecting and restoring the degraded arid lakes are globally urgent issues. We document a potential recovery of the dried salt-lake, Lop Nur called "the Sea of Death" which is located at the...

2019年4月1日 · Lop Nur in northwestern China is a terminal lake which was still one of the world's largest lakes in historical times. Sediments from the excavated section YKD0301 in its presently dry basin were investigated to reconstruct the Holocene salinity history of the lake.

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The dried-up lake bed of Lop Nur is in the centre of the region and it is surrounded by the Gashun Gobi desert to the north, east and west and by the Aqike valley and the Kum Tagh sand dunes to the south.