Continental Weathering Features in the Jinsha River Drainage Basin in the Eastern Part of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

• 责任者：Qin Jianhua (Chengdu Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources ; Chengdu 610081 ; China) ; Du Gu
• 刊名：Sedimentary Geology and Tethyan Geology
• 出版年：2010
• 卷期：30(3)
• 关键词：风化作用 ; weathering ; 金沙江 ; Jinsha River
• 页码：p.18-23
• 图表：5 illus., 3 tables, 6 refs.
• 分类号：0603
• issnNo：ISSN1009-3850
• isbnNo：CN51-1593/P

The Jinsha River drainage basin in the eastern part of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau is interpreted as an ideal area for the study of the relationship between the Plateau uplift and continental weathering. The emphasis in the present paper is placed on the continental weathering features in the Jinsha River drainage basin based on the major ions in the dissolved loads and clay minerals as suspended loads. The results of research in this study show that the weathered rocks are significantly composed of carbonate rocks, evaporites and silicate rocks in the Jinsha River drainage basin.