Response of Travertine Dam to Precipitation over the Past 800 Years in Zabuye Salt Lake, Southwestern Tibetan Plateau
Journal: Minerals
Year: 2022

The Tibetan Plateau is known as the core area of the third pole of the Earth and is a key area for global climate change research. This study uses the Zabuye Salt Lake travertine dam as the research object and U–Th dating as the chronological framework and proposes that the carbon and oxygen isotopes of travertine can be used as a precipitation index through the analysis of hydrogen and oxygen isotopes of spring water, and petrology, mineralogy, carbon and oxygen isotopes of travertine. The prec