中文摘要:中国是一个多盐湖的国家，并有悠久的盐湖开发历史。第四纪盐湖主要分布于我国西部和东北部。笔者将中国盐湖划分为4个盐湖区和13个盐湖亚区。已知的4种盐湖水化学类型在中国均已找到。这些盐湖水化学类型以紫达木-塔里木东部干旱（极干旱）地区为中心，向外围发生有规律的变化。自第四纪以来，中国盐湖带反映出有6次以上干旱扩张期，该发现对于阐明中国乃至东亚第四纪古气候环境演变有重要意义。
Abstract:With many saline lakes, China has a long history of salt lake exploitation. According to the archaeology of salt-making technology and radiocarbon chronology, the use of salt is thought to have begun more than 4000 years ago in the Xiechi Lake, Yuncheng, Shaanxi province. Most Quaternary saline lakes occur in West and Northeast China. Four main saline lake regions can be distinguished: Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Northwest region, Northeast region and East region of scattered lakes, which consists of thirteen saline lake districts. All the hydrochemical types in the world have been found in saline lakes of China, which include carbonate type (strong, moderate and weak subtypes), sodium sulfate subtype, magnesium sulfate subtype, chloride type and nitrate type. From the Quaternary arid center of the Qaidam Basin-Eastern Tarim Basin outwards, there are successively a chloride (nitrate) magnesium sulfate subtype zone, a magnesium-sulfate subtype zone or sodium-sulfate zone, and a carbonate type + sodium-sulfate subtype or carbonate type zone. According to Quaternary saline lake records, since the beginning of the Quaternary, there have been more than six stages of arid climate (salinization): Stage I (2.36~2.00 Ma B.P.), Stage Ⅱ(1.62～1.00 Ma B. P.), Stage Ⅲ (0.90～0.60 Ma B.P.), Stage IV (31 000～21 000 a B.P.), Stage V (18 000～5 000 a B. P.) and Stage VI (4 500 a B.P.～the present day).
keywords:saline lakes of China regionalization of the hydrochemical types saline lake-dryness spreading stages
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基金项目:国家自然科举重点基金(49833010)和国家科技“青藏高原盐湖潜力评价”项目(97-924-01-03)
引用文本：
郑绵平.2001.论中国盐湖[J].矿床地质,20(2):182~189,128.2001.On Saline Lakes of China[J].Mineral Deposits20(2):182~189,128
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