For tourists, salt lake is synonymous with "the mirror of the sky" and a very strange natural wonder. The surface of the salt lake is like a natural mirror, and its specular reflection effect is incomparable to that of the sea and other freshwater lakes and rivers, so it is loved by tourists. I believe that friends who travel to Salt Lake want to get this wonderful effect photo, so there is always a "sky" to dominate the screen every summer. There are four salt lakes in China.
1, Chaka Salt Lake: Chaka Salt Lake is the most famous, because there are too many tourists visiting in summer, which has already had a certain impact on the local environment. Therefore, the scenic spot adopts the regulation of limiting the number of tourists, and the annual tourist season is only about three months. Being able to travel to Chaka Salt Lake has quickly become a tourist luxury, which requires not only an appointment, but also sunny weather. Kaka salt lake
Chaka Salt Lake is located in Chaka Town, Wulan County, Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province. It is a plateau lake with an altitude of 3059 meters, which is close to the Qinghai-Tibet Railway. Tourism and transportation are very convenient. At present, the drying speed is accelerating, and friends who want to experience it are best to go in the wet season.
2. Chaerhan Salt Lake: Chaerhan Salt Lake is located in Qaidam Basin, belonging to Golmud City and dulan county. It is the largest salt lake in China, and its water source comes from Golmud River and Qaidam River.
3. Yuncheng Salt Lake: Yuncheng Salt Lake is the largest lake in Shanxi Province. Studies show that it was formed in the Cenozoic Himalayan tectonic movement, with a history of 50 million years. Salt Lake is mainly composed of sodium sulfate, the third largest in the world, with an area of 132 square kilometers and the deepest point of 6 meters. It is the largest salt lake nearest to the Central Plains.
4. Balikun Salt Lake is a famous salt lake in Xinjiang, with an area of 1 17 square kilometers. It is an oval lake, 9 kilometers long from east to west and 13 kilometers long from north to south. It is located in Barkun Kazak Autonomous County, Xinjiang.
In addition to these four salt lakes, there are many salt lakes in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the most famous of which are Jilantai Salt Lake, Yabulai Salt Lake in Alashan League and Ejinaer Lake in Xilin Gol League. It is also a very famous salt lake, rich in Daqing salt.
The golden season of tourism in these salt lakes occurs from June to August every year. During this period, it is usually wet season, and full rain will clean the lake. In addition, the concentration of salt lake is too high, and there are almost no living things, so the lake water will appear clear and transparent, and the mirror effect is good. In this season, it is also a good opportunity to produce salt.
Once in September, due to climate change, a large amount of mirabilite will condense out of the water, eclipsing the natural landscape, and the factory began to produce mirabilite when tourism entered the off-season, but many tourists did not have the opportunity to see this grand occasion;
As for the formation of salt lakes, traditional scientific research agrees that the evaporation is greater than the recharge (rainfall or river injection), the seawater or lake water gradually dries up, and the salt concentration of the lake water is getting higher and higher. When it reaches a certain level, it becomes a salt lake. It can be said that some salt lakes may be the sea of Wang Yang hundreds of millions of years ago, because some salt lakes still have some fossils of ancient and marine life.
Different salt lakes have different compositions, but June-August is the best tourist season in most salt lakes, almost the same. Due to the different concentrations of salt water, various magical effects will appear on the lake.
According to the experts' explanation of the formation of salt lakes, they think that they are all formed by evaporation from the sea, so there is basically no essential difference between sea salt and lake salt, but the concentration is different. Therefore, it is meaningless to argue about whose lake salt and sea salt are better in the past, because historically, they may be interlinked and their main components are not much different.