Meanings
- historicalFormer name of Qaidam, a town in Da Qaidam, Haixi prefecture, Qinghai, China, officially renamed in 2005.
At 01:52 on 28 August 2009 (UTC), an Mw 6.3 earthquake occurred at Dachaidan town, Haixi city, Qinghai province, China.
2015 July 10, Yang Liu, Caijun Xu, Yangmao Wen, Hok Sum Fok, “A New Perspective on Fault Geometry and Slip Distribution of the 2009 Dachaidan Mw 6.3 Earthquake from InSAR Observations”, in Sensors, volume 15, number 7, →DOI, →ISSN, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2023, page 167872 more examples
A large quantity of rare Miocene petrified woods have been discovered in the Yardang landform area near the Nanbaxian village, Dachaidan Town.
2016, Ye-Ming Cheng, Xiao-Nan Yang, “Miocene woods from the Qaidam Basin on northern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau with implications for paleoenvironmental change”, in Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, volume 116, →DOI, →ISSN, page 199In Qaidam EFZ, the cities of Golmud and Mangye, along with Dachaidan town, are important industrial bases in Qinghai Province.
2023 March 10, Xiaofan Ma, Haifeng Zhang, “Land-Use/Land-Cover Change and Ecosystem Service Provision in Qinghai Province, China: From the Perspective of Five Ecological Function Zones”, in Land, volume 12, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 Mar 2023
Origin
- Mandarin大柴旦
- EnglishDachaidan
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大柴旦 (Dàcháidàn).
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