Changes in the hydrodynamic intensity of Bosten Lake and its impact on early human settlement in the northeastern Tarim Basin, eastern Arid Central Asia

Haichao Xie1, Xiaozhong Huang2, Shengqian Chen2, Richard S Vachula3, James M Russell3, Mengjing Guo4, Xin Wang2 and Fahu Chen1, (1)ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, (3)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, (4)Xi'an University of Technology, Xi'an, China