Palaeoclimatic indicators of China's quaternary saline lake sediments and hydrochemistry

In this paper the authors classify saline lake sediments into the cold, war m and eurythermal phases, reveal the consistency between the zoning of hydr ochemical types of modem saline lake water and climatic zoning and give cli matic parameters under the conditions of typical cold phase (mirabilite and natron), warm phase (thenardite) and slightly warm phase (bloedite) saline lake deposition.