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Lop Nur or Lop Nor (from a Mongolian name meaning "Lop Lake") is a former salt lake in China, now largely dried-up, located between the Taklamakan and Kumtag deserts in the southeastern portion of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China. Administratively, the lake is in Lop Nur township (罗布泊镇, also known as Luozhong 罗中) of Ruoqiang County, which in its turn is part of the Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture. The lake system into which the Tarim River and Shule River empty is the last remnant of the historical post-glacial Tarim Lake, which once covered more than in the Tarim Basin. Lop Nur is hydrologically endorheic— it is landbound and there is no outlet. The lake measured in 1928, but has dried up due to construction of dams which blocked the flow of water feeding into the lake system, and only small seasonal lakes and marshes may form. The dried-up Lop Nur Basin is covered with a salt crust ranging from 30 cm to 1 m in thickness. Lop Nur has been used as a nuclear testing site,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lop Nor Nuclear Weapons Test Base )〕 and since the discovery of potash at the site in the mid-1990s it is also the location of a large-scale mining operation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lop Nur, Xinjiang, China )〕 ==Gallery== Image:Basin of Lop Nur 90.25E, 40.10N, Kum Tagh and Astin Tagh.jpg|Basin of Lop Nur by satellite. Image:Desert Lop Nur 89.00E, 40.30N between Kuruktagh and Astintagh.jpg|Satellite picture of the Lop Desert with the basin of the formerly sea Lop Nur. In the left Kuruk-tagh, in the right Astin-tagh. Image:Lop Nur, Xinjiang, China.jpg|Satellite image of a potassium chloride factory in Lop Nur. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lop Nur」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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