Depositional environments and salt-thickness variations in Urmia Lake (NW Iran): Insight from sediment-core studies

A Mohammadi, R Lak… - Journal of …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Urmia Lake is a large-scale hypersaline lake that experienced a drastic water-level fall due
to natural and anthropogenic forces during the last two decades. Construction of a …

Asynchronous Holocene climate optimum across mid-latitude Asia

F Gao, J Jia, D Xia, C Lu, H Lu, Y Wang, H Liu… - Palaeogeography …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Holocene Climate Optimum (HCO) was an important interval in the
development of human civilization and has been the focus of many paleoclimatic studies …

Textural features of saline-sodic soils affected by Urmia Lake in the Northwest of Iran

F Jafarpoor, S Manafi, RM Poch - Geoderma, 2021 - Elsevier
The increasing regression of Urmia Lake in the last 30 years has brought about the
salinization and sodification of arid soils from the shoreline, which has aggravated land …

Sedimentary evolution and lake level fluctuations of Urmia Lake (north‐west Iran) over the past 50 000 years; insights from Artemia faecal pellet records

S Sarı, A Mohammadi, G Schwamborn… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A 25 m long sediment core from hypersaline Urmia Lake (north‐west Iran) was studied for
the Late Quaternary depositional history and palaeoclimate variations using the abundance …

Lake Urmia brine evolution from 2007 to 2019

R Lak, A Mohammadi, J Darvishi Khatooni - Lake Urmia: A Hypersaline …, 2022 - Springer
Lake Urmia is presently the second-largest hypersaline lake on Earth and is in NW Iran. The
lake experiences an extremely rapid water level fall of about 6 m in the last two decades due …

Assessment of the dominant climatic factor affecting pedogenic development in eolian sequences during the Holocene in arid central Asia

F Gao, J Jia, D Xia, Y Wang - Quaternary International, 2019 - Elsevier
Eolian sediments are widely distributed and are one of the most important geological
archives of past climatic changes. For example, the degree of pedogenic development of …