About the Authors

Zhe Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhe Ma, Dan Ma

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft

mazhe@isl.ac.cn (ZM); maxz@isl.ac.cn (XM)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Green and High-end Utilization of Salt Lake Resources, Qinghai Institute of Salt Lakes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China

Xiuzhen Ma

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

mazhe@isl.ac.cn (ZM); maxz@isl.ac.cn (XM)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Green and High-end Utilization of Salt Lake Resources, Qinghai Institute of Salt Lakes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China

Dan Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhe Ma, Dan Ma

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Xining Center of Natural Resources Comprehensive Survey, China Geological Survey, Xining, China

Yubin Li

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Green and High-end Utilization of Salt Lake Resources, Qinghai Institute of Salt Lakes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China

Xin Liu

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Green and High-end Utilization of Salt Lake Resources, Qinghai Institute of Salt Lakes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China

Guojing Zhu

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Green and High-end Utilization of Salt Lake Resources, Qinghai Institute of Salt Lakes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China

Qi Wei

Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Green and High-end Utilization of Salt Lake Resources, Qinghai Institute of Salt Lakes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China

Yunqi Ma

Roles Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Green and High-end Utilization of Salt Lake Resources, Qinghai Institute of Salt Lakes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China

Syed Hussain Asim

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Construction Materials Testing Laboratory, Public Works Department, Gilgit, Pakistan

Lu Cong

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Chengdu Academy of Educational Sciences (Chengdu Research Office of Basic Education), Chengdu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.