西藏湖区是地球上海拔最高的盐湖区,也是世界最早发现和利用硼砂的闻名产地,尤以盐湖硼锂高度富集、成矿地质条件独特而著称。一、湖盆成因与湖系区划实地调查和卫片解译表明,西藏盐湖盆地主要是构造成因,且以断陷盆地和继承性断陷盆地为主,冰川和河流等外力因素起次要的作用。西藏的盐湖盆地多在第三纪末 Lake Tibet is the highest elevation salt lake in the world and is also the earliest known place in the world for the discovery and utilization of borax. It is particularly famous for the unique enrichment of boron and lithium in salt lake and its unique geological conditions. First, the lake genesis and zoning division field investigation and interpretation of the piece shows that the main salt lake basin is the cause of the structure, and to fault basin and inherited faulted basin dominated by external factors such as glaciers and rivers play a secondary effect. Salt Lake Basin in Tibet and more in the end of the Tertiary