Provenance and Geochemical Characteristics of the Silt and Clay Fraction in the Taklamakan Desert, Northwestern China

Horizontal wind erosion flux and potential dust emission in arid and semiarid regions of China: A major source area for East Asia dust storms

“…The grain-size distribution equation was proposed by Murray et al (2000). To avoid statistical errors, we have not included data obtained from the dried Taitema Lake bed in the area of the degraded land of oases of inland rivers because of their extremely large range, as detailed by Wang et al (2012).…”

“…The monitoring areas of the Taklamakan Desert (I), Gobi-type desert of the Qaidam Basin and Dunhuang region (II), and Gobi-type desert of the Hexi Corridor and Alax region (III) are representative of arid areas with extensive distributions of mobile sand seas, Gobi-type deserts, and aeolian land with low vegetation cover. The degraded land of oases on the lower reaches of inland rivers (Ta and Dong, 2006;Wang et al, 2012;Yan et al, 1998;Zhang et al, 1998) represents the belt of vegetation and dry-lake landforms affected by windblown sand and dust in regions around the sand seas and Gobi-type deserts. This landform type arises from both natural causes and human interference and it is important that it be monitored.…”

“…For our sand-rich samples (mean PM63 and its SiO 2 contents were 16.52% and 61.33%, respectively), the bias introduced by this two different methods is negligible. The same methods of sample collection and testing have been detailed by Wang et al (2012).…”

“…Sandy land and steppes (l, m, n, and o). (p) Schematic cross section of the sand trap used for collecting the creeping and saltating sand during windblown sand/dust events(Wang et al, 2012).…”

Evaluation of microbially Induced calcite precipitation (MICP) methods on different soil types for wind erosion control

“…S. Bang et al [19] and Gu et al [20] have applied MICP on two types of soils, poorly graded sand and well graded sand, which again did not consider soils with different particle sizes. However, since the soil composition of major deserts (Takla Makan Desert, Gobi Desert, Loess Area) vary from sand to silty sandy loam [21][22][23], the way to apply MICP on soils mainly containing silt and clay must be devised.…”