Zigetangcuo Lake
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  Tsige Dartso Location of Zigetangcuo Lake in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. | |
| Location | Nagqu Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region |
| Coordinates | 32°00′N 90°44′E / 32.000°N 90.733°E |
| Type | meromictic |
| Basin countries | China |
| Surface area | 187 km2 (72 sq mi) |
| Surface elevation | 4,560 m (14,960 ft) |
Tsige Dartso (Tibetan: ཙི་གེ་དར་མཚོ, Wylie: tsi ge dar mtsho, ZYPY: Tsige Dartso) or Zigetangcuo Lake (Chinese: 兹格塘错; pinyin: Zīgétáng cuò)[1] is a crenogenic[2] meromictic lake[3] in the North Tibetan Plateau.[4] It is located in Nagqu Prefecture, north of Dongqiao.[5] It has an area of 187 square kilometers[2] at an altitude of 4560 meters.[6] It is the meromictic lake with the highest known altitude.[2]
References
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- ^ "The Feature of Paleoclimate Recorded by Carbonate Content and Grain-size of Sediment in Zigetangcuo Lake". cnki.com.cn. Retrieved 2012-07-22.
- ^ Manfred A. Jäch; Lanzhu Ji; Zoologisch-Botanische Gesellschaft in Österreich; Wiener Coleopterologenverein (1995). Water beetles of China, Volume 3. Zoologisch-Botanische Gesellschaft (Section of Entomology) and Wiener Coleopterologenverein. Retrieved 2012-07-22.
- ^ McGraw-Hill, McGraw-Hill Publishing Company (2009-05-12). McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 9780071613668. Retrieved 2012-07-22.
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