Severe soil erosion challenges exist in China as a result of long-term human related
activities and its erosion-prone land forms and climate. Anthropogenic forces that alter the …

Remote sensing observations and rover missions have documented the presence of playas,
salts, and wind erosion landforms of lacustrine sediments on Mars. All of these observations …

Soil erosion by water is accelerated by a warming climate and negatively impacts water
security and ecological conservation. The Tibetan Plateau (TP) has experienced warming at …

An empirical approach was employed to monitor changes in soil erosion status in China,
incorporating landform, slope, vegetation coverage, land use/cover, and expert …

The loess and paleosol sequences of the Chinese Loess Plateau are composed of
Quaternary dust, the origin of which has been the subject of considerable debate. Some …

Quantifying the dust optical depth (DOD) and its uncertainty across spatiotemporal scales is
key to understanding and constraining the dust cycle and its interactions with the Earth …

As the population has increased and the economy has developed in the Qaidam Basin, the
demand for food and energy in the basin has increased, and the contradiction between …

How the present-day northern Tibetan Plateau was involved in the plateau formation
process in context of the Cenozoic India–Eurasia collision has been disputed for decades …

Understanding the interaction between groundwater and surface water is of vital
significance for the sustainable management of water resources in arid and semi-arid areas …

Two debated age models, with a basal age of~ 50 Ma versus~ 30 Ma, are proposed for the
depositional age of Cenozoic strata within the Qaidam basin result in a diverse …