Qaidam

English + Basin Qaidam Basin Alternative forms from Russian en Tsaidam Etymology A romanization of en bo ཚྭའི་འདམ, from bo ཚྭ salt + bo འི possessive particle + bo འདམ marsh, swamp, morass Proper noun An arid basin of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau covered with deserts and salt flats, making up most of northwestern Qinghai Province, China. en 12 May 1971 05 May 1971 Tsinghai Autonomous District Develops Local Industry Daily Report: Communist China I 92 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015049262366&seq=437 w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service Peking NCNA Domestic Service zh 31371214 Communist China: Northwest Region H 1 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015049262366&seq=494 "Under the guidance of Chairman Mao's great strategic plan 'be prepared against war, be prepared against natural disasters, and do everything for the people,' party organizations and revolutionary committees at all levels of Haihsi Mongol-Tibetan-Kazakh Autonomous District, Tsinghai Province, have led the broad masses in actively developing local industries through self-reliance and arduous struggle and have scored conspiciousconspicuous achievements.The district is located in the Chaitamu Basin, which is known for its mineral deposits. on en November 23, 1984 Christopher S. Wren CHINA'S FORGOTTEN CORNER DREAMS OF DAYS TO COME w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20150524155830/https://www.nytimes.com/1984/11/23/world/china-s-forgotten-corner-dreams-of-days-to-come.html May 24, 2015 https://www.nytimes.com/1984/11/23/world/china-s-forgotten-corner-dreams-of-days-to-come.html 0362-4331 1645522 Section A 2 According to Qinghai's Deputy Governor, Ga Bulong, 100 million tons of oil have been verified under the salt flats of the Qaidam Basin. en 1990 Salt Diapirs of the Great Kavir, Central Iran https://archive.org/details/saltdiapirsofgre0000unse/ 0-8137-1177-0 90-21590 1052139421 1863750M 134 https://archive.org/details/saltdiapirsofgre0000unse/page/134/ No salt diapirs are exposed in Qaidam. But given the close similarity of Landsat images of the Kavir and Qaidam basins, the subsurface role of halokinesis or halotectonics in the Qaidam basin has probably been underestimated. en March 29, 2022 Chen Aizhu PetroChina taps shale oil in ageing western China field Edmund Blair https://web.archive.org/web/20220329102855/https://www.reuters.com/world/china/petrochina-taps-shale-oil-ageing-western-china-field-2022-03-29/ 29 March 2022 w:Reuters The state giant started drilling four horizontal wells in Yingxiongling in Qinghai oilfield, part of the Qaidam basin in western province of Qinghai where oil exploration began in the 1950s, Petrochina's parent company CNPC said on Tuesday. A river in the basin. Translations Chinese: Cantonese: yue 柴達木 caai4 daat6 muk6 Mandarin: cmn 柴達木 Cháidámù Manchu: mnc ᠴᠠᡳᡩᠠᠮ Further reading Qaidam, Tsaidam en 1998 Qaidam Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/ 3 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 2543 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/2543/ 1 en Places in China