Nature of chemical composition diversity of the East Ttransbaikalia salt lakes (Russia)
Journal: E3S Web of Conferences
Year: 2019

We have developed a new concept for the formation of geochemical types of salt lakes which explains the nature of their different chemical composition under close landscape-climatic and geological-geochemical conditions. The extensive field hydrogeochemical material and thermodynamic calculations demonstrate that in addition to evaporation, the interaction with rocks plays a great role in the formation of the composition of lakes. This interaction begins in the catchment area of a particular lak