TY - JOUR
TI - The yellow river-bed evolution a statistical proof of the mountain-river-desert conjecture
AU - Mei Ying
AU - Liu Yu-Qi
AU - Huan Ji-He
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2023
VL - 27
IS - 3
SP - 2075
EP - 2079
PT - Article
AB - When the Yellow River flows through the Hetao Plain in Inner Mongolia, north  China, it forms a mountain-river-desert system with the Yin Mountains on one  side and the Hobq desert on the other side. In this mountain-river-desert  system, a dense growth of green grass is formed in the area fronting the  river and with the mountains at the back, however, on the opposite the  river, the area has an inherent trend to lost moisture, which might cause  desertification. This study verifies this theoretical conjecture by  analyzing the Yellow Riverbed change from 2014 to 2021. The seven year  change showed the river is the inherent boundary between the grassland and  the dessert, and it was nothing to do with the river banks' past earth  surfaces.