Brown desert soil is found in the extreme temperate arid desert areas and develops on sandy gravel-bearing sediments left by the parent materials on slopes. The surface has obvious gravel layers, pore-like crusts, iron-stained layers, gypsum accumulation layers and salt-bearing layers. It is widely distributed in the Tianshan Mountains, west of Jiayuguan and in the Gobi Plain north of the Kunlun Mountains.
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(2020). Brown Desert Soil. In: Chen, A., Ng, Y., Zhang, E., Tian, M. (eds) Dictionary of Geotourism. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2538-0_204
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