Tourism environmental capacity of the northern scenic area in Aiding Lake;

To better understand halophilic archaeal diversity of salt lakes in Xinjiang,water and sediment samples were collected from two salt lakes,namely Aibi salt lake and Aiding salt lake,and the halophilic archaeal diversity of these samples was determined.

First discovered in the Aiding Lake Coal Mine,about 15 km northwest of Daheyan,during a petroleum geological survey in a period from 1988 to 1989,the Kazacharthra illustrsted in this paper,symbiotic with the Yanchang Flora,are of Late Triassic,and its corresponding strata equal to the Huangshanjie Formation.