This paper examines the Khotanese tradition in the political and cultural history of the Tarim Basin in the first millennium CE by foregrounding its role as an active facilitator within a multicultural and continually transforming geopolitical enviro...
Tarim is inferred to have a close connection with East Gondwana during the Ordovician, but the position in East Gondwana remains controversial. In this study, we report 316 detrital zircons U-Pb data from three samples of Ordovician Malieziken Group...
The Tarim Block is an ancient plate with a basement of ancient continental crust, which has been separated from the Rodinia supercontinent since the Neoproterozoic. During the Neoproterozoic, which lasted nearly 500 Myr, this block experienced signif...
Endorheic rivers as landlocked systems with no hydrological connections to marine environments are suffering from water and ecosystem crisis worldwide, yet little is known about their structural characteristics with complex geomorphic and climatic de...
Interpretation of the seismic reflection profiles associated with borehole data from the petroleum industry offers a novel way to study sill emplacement in sedimentary basins. This study uses this approach to reveal the intrusive part of the Tarim La...
The Tarim River Basin is an important grain and cotton base in Xinjiang, China. Indeed, cotton production in this basin accounts for one-third of the total cotton production in China. The Tarim River Basin is characterized also by the presence of for...
The Tarim River Basin, China’s largest inland river basin, is renowned for its ecological fragility characterized by concurrent greening and desertification processes. Soil wind erosion emerges as a critical factor impacting the natural ecosyst...
Hemiculter leucisculus is an invasive fish and widely distributed in the Xinjiang Tarim River. In this study, RAD-seq was used to explore the genetic diversity and population subgroup structure of H. leucisculus in the Tarim River and develop relevan...
Taking the Tarim River basin as the research object, the water footprint was calculated based on the water footprint theory based on the relevant data from 2008 to 2019, and the water resource evaluation system was constructed to analyze the water fo...
The genesis of deep-to-ultra-deep dolomite reservoirs in the Tarim Basin is crucial for exploration and development. The Cambrian subsalt dolomite reservoirs in the Tarim Basin are widely distributed, marking significant prospects for ultra-deep rese...
The Late Paleozoic strata on the northwestern margin of the Tarim Block provide valuable insights into the subduction and collision processes that formed the Southwest Tianshan Orogenic Belt. This study integrates detrital zircon U-Pb dating and sand...
The distribution of Triplophysa yarkandensis is restricted to Xinjiang’s Tarim River basin. We collected 119 T. yarkandensis samples from nine geographic populations in the Tarim River basin and utilized the RAD-seq method for SNP genotyping. In this...
Large fault belts often influence the paleo-geomorphic changes in basins and control hydrocarbon accumulation and distribution in basins. Based on the gravity field model European Improved Gravity model of the Earth via New techniques (EIGEN)-6C4, th...
Pyrolysis of crude oil is an important way to generate natural gas. However, the current analysis of pyrolysis gas carbon isotopes and the study of gas generation dynamics are not unified, and the genesis and accumulation of gas reservoirs are needed...
Taitema Lake, located in the lower reaches of the Tarim River and the Cherchen River, is one of the most important ecological barriers in Ruoqiang County. The amount of water in Taitema Lake plays an important role in maintaining a healthy cycle with...
This study quantitatively analyzes the effects of flooding on the growth and species diversity of riparian forests along the Yarkant River and the Tarim River, Xinjiang, in northwest China, and provides important information for the efficient utiliza...
Proper agricultural water management in arid regions is the key to tackling climatic risks. However, an effective assessment of the current response to climate change in agricultural water use is the precondition for a group adaptation strategy. The...
Land use/cover change has become an indispensable part of global eco-environmental change research. The Tarim River Basin is the largest inland river basin in China. It is also one of the most ecologically fragile areas in the country, with greening...
The rumen is divided into multiple rumen sacs based on anatomical structure, and each has its unique physiological environment. Tarim wapiti preserved roughage tolerance after domestication, and adaptation to the desertified environment led to the de...
As an ecologically sensitive area with significant desertification problems, the Ring-Tarim Basin has a fragile ecological environment that is vulnerable to both natural and anthropogenic factors. Accurate long-term vegetation observations are ecolog...
The Xiaoerbulake Formation in the Tarim Basin is considered one of the most important deep to ultradeep hydrocarbon reservoirs in the world. The objective of the present study is to analyze the facies, depositional environment and reservoir quality o...
The Tarim Basin is located in an arid inland area; the ecological environment is fragile, and it is extremely sensitive to climate change. For the purpose of studying dynamic changes in the vegetation response of vegetation in the Tarim Basin to extr...
Helium is an irreplaceable ore resource for many applications, such as nuclear magnetic resonance, aviation, semiconductors, and nuclear energy. Extracting helium in a free state from natural gas is currently the only economical approach at the indus...
The Tarim Basin is currently the largest petroliferous basin in China, with hydrocarbons primarily hosted in Ordovician marine carbonate paleokarst fracture–vug reservoirs—a typical example being the Tahe Oilfield located in the northern...
The response of dryland vegetation to climate change is particularly sensitive in the context of global climate change. This paper analyzes the characteristics of spatial and temporal dynamics of vegetation cover in the Tarim River Basin, China, and...
Anomalous bright spots, called the string of bead-like response, are typical seismic migration profile features in carbonate fractured reservoirs in the Tarim Basin, and they are indicators of high-quality oil and gas reservoirs. Correctly recognizin...
The Tarim River (TR), the longest inland river at an arid area in China, plays a critical role in the sustainable development of the regional ecological environment. This study presents the spatial-temporal variations in the vegetation coverage at re...
The integration of petrological and geochemical analyses serves as an effective methodology for reconstructing depositional environments and constraining sediment provenance within distinct tectonic frameworks. This study investigates the provenance...
As the largest inland river in China, the Tarim River’s flood events significantly influence its riverbed formation. This paper took the Alar to Xinquman section of the Tarim River as the study area. The study area’s digital elevation mod...
Water system connectivity is an important measure to optimize the balanced spatial allocation of water resources and water security patterns. Inland river basins in arid zones are generally insufficiently connected, so the scientific evaluation of th...
In recent years, global climate change and human alterations to land use have led to a decrease in ecosystem services, making ecosystems more vulnerable. However, unlike the well-established risk assessment frameworks used in natural disaster researc...
The problem of desertification in the Tarim Basin, an area with a unique geography and climatic conditions, has received extensive research attention not only in China but also around the world. Between natural factors and human activities, the latte...
Cambrian subsalt dolomite is an important strategic area for natural gas exploration in the Tarim Basin. The gypsum-salt rocks, argillaceous mudstone and argillaceous dolomite strata developed in large areas of the Middle Cambrian can be used as good...
Sandstorm is the most serious disaster suffered by human settlements in arid areas. From the perspective of human activities, this paper analyzes the influence of artificial oasis change on spatial variation in sandstorm disaster and its driving mech...
Snow in the mountainous watersheds of the Tarim River Basin is the primary source of water for western China. The Snow Cover Daily L3 Global 500-m Grid (MOD10A1) remote sensing dataset has proven extremely valuable for monitoring the changing snow co...
Quantifying water use for agricultural production and accurate evaluation is important for achieving a balance between water supply and demand and sustainable use, especially in arid regions. This study quantifies the water footprint of food producti...
Owing to the paucity of research on synchronous mafic rocks in the Tarim Basin, the late Paleozoic–early Mesozoic tectonic development of this region is not well defined. The Halaqi region is situated on Tarim’s northwest edge, and numero...
Droughts are a frequent occurrence in Xinjiang, China, and therefore fundamental to determining their hydrologic characteristics is low flow analysis. To that end, 11 probability distribution functions and 26 copulas functions were employed to analyz...
The Tarim Basin in the western part of Northwest China (NWC) is the largest inland basin in the world and one of the most arid regions in the middle latitudes. In recent years, heavy precipitation events have occurred frequently in this region, espec...
Quantifying and separating the impacts of hydroclimatic change and human activities on streamflow consumption are crucial issues for the planning, management, and rational allocation of water resources in arid inland river basins. Generalized additiv...
Understanding climate change during the relatively warm Pliocene, as compared to the present, offers significant potential for understanding future global consequences of rising atmospheric CO2. Sensitivity differences among various climate proxies l...
A reliable precipitation dataset with high spatial resolution is essential for climate research in the Tarim Basin. This study evaluated the performances of four models, namely a random forest (RF), a long short-term memory network (LSTM), a support...
The Tarim basin is a unique ecosystem. The water from the Tarim River supports both wildlife and humans. To analyze the effects of both land use and climate changes on groundwater, a research site was established at Yingibazar, which is a river oasis...
Land use/cover (LULC) type change is one of the important causes of global change and the imbalance of the carbon cycle. Investigating the temporal variation in regional soil organic carbon storage (Rsoc) driven by LULC change is of great significanc...
Cambrian age strata are the critical development and research stratum series of oil and gas reserves in the Tarim Basin, which contains rich oil and gas resources. The restoration of the Cambrian carbonate platform conversion and the main control fac...
To evaluate the pollution sources and dynamics of the upper reaches of the Tarim River, 10 typical sampling points were selected, and 23 water quality parameters from 2020 to 2022 were analyzed using one-way analysis of variance, the comprehensive Wa...
The Qigebulake Formation in the northwestern Tarim Basin records high-frequency oolitic tidal flat cycles formed during the Upper Ediacaran, a period marked by tectonic, volcanic, and hydrothermal events. This study presents a detailed petrographic a...
As China’s largest inland river basin and one of the world’s most arid regions, the Tarim River Basin is home to an extremely fragile ecological environment. Therefore, monitoring the water storage changes is critical for enhancing water...
In order to gain a deeper understanding of the effects of environmental factors on the formation of Populus euphratica xylem, this study analysed the anatomical characteristics of Populus euphratica xylem and its response to environmental factors usi...
This paper explores the watershed land use and ecosystem services value (ESV) space-time evolution characteristics in the Tarim River Basin in China’s arid northwest. The study applies spatial correlation analysis using Landsat TM remote sensin...
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