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What's going on in Yuncheng Salt Lake? Why does Yuncheng Salt Lake change color?

Why does Yuncheng Salt Lake change color? What is the magic natural scene? Yuncheng Salt Lake is one of the three largest inland salt lakes of sodium sulfate type in the world, and it is also an inland salt lake. Now, in autumn, Yuncheng salt lake turns green on one side and rose red on the other, so why does Yuncheng Salt Lake change color?

What's the matter with the change of Yuanyang pot in Yuncheng Salt Lake? The autumn equinox is coming. The temperature is falling. The salt lake located in Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province, also presents different colors. The water surface of the salt lake on both sides of the cross Lake Avenue is green and rose red, which has amazed countless netizens.

The reason why the color of Yuncheng Salt Lake changes is that the temperature drops, the minerals in the salt lake evaporate, and the role of a kind of halophilic green microalgae.

Yuncheng Salt Lake is located in the hinterland of Jinnan basin, the turning point of Yellow River in Qin, Jin, Henan, the south of Zhongtiao Mountain, the north of Emei mingtiaogang, the east of Wushui Yaotai, the west of the Yellow River gudu. The lake is 324.5 meters above sea level, the deepest part is about 6 meters, with a total area of 132 square kilometers.

Yuncheng salt lake belongs to the warm temperate semi humid continental monsoon climate, with abundant light and heat resources. The rain and heat are concentrated in the same season. The annual average rainfall is 559.3mm, the annual average sunshine hours are 2247.4 hours, the annual average temperature is 13.6 & deg; C, the frost free period is about 208 days, and the total accumulated temperature over the years is 513.8 & deg; C.

Yuncheng Salt Lake is one of the three largest inland salt lakes in the world. Because its salt content is similar to the 'Dead Sea' in the Middle East, people can float in the water without sinking, so it is known as the 'Dead Sea of China'.

Yuncheng Salt Lake is an ancient and typical inland salt water lake. Geological research shows that Yuncheng Salt Lake was born in the tertiary Himalayan tectonic movement period of the Cenozoic, with a history of about 50 million years. It extends from northeast to southwest, with a length of about 30 kilometers, a width of 3-5 kilometers, an elevation of 324.5 meters, a deepest depth of about 6 meters, and a total area of 132 square kilometers.