Table 1.
Main features of “metamorphic coefficients” in different types of inland saline waters according to Valyashko [25].
Fig 1.
The large geographic scale distribution of the assessed lakes and pans in the dataset by countries and references.
Footnotes Austria, Hungary, Serbia (N = 72) [27–28]. China (N = 20) [26,29]. Kazakhstan (N = 30) [30–32] and in S1 Table (N = 7). Mongolia (N = 26) [15] and in S1 Table (N = 12). Russia (N = 50) [33–39]. Turkey (N = 3) [1].
Table 2.
The chemical types of lakes and pans with groups of major and subtypes identified on the basis of the dominant ion method.
Fig 2.
Ternary diagrams of the equivalent percentage (e%) contribution of ions to total ion content in the identified water chemical types.
Footnotes The term “saline” here means all the other types of inland saline waters without soda brine character.
Table 3.
Number of lakes and pans by identified chemical type and country.
Fig 3.
Principal component analysis (PCA) performed on the ion composition of the identified water chemical types.
Footnotes The term “saline” here means all the other types of inland saline waters without soda brine character.
Fig 4.
Relationship between the equivalent percentage (e%) of HCO3– + CO32– and its loadings (scores) in the PCA with the identified water chemical types.
Footnotes The term “saline” here means all the other types of inland saline waters without soda brine character.
Table 4.
Loadings (scores) of the variables (ions) on the first two axes of the PCA ordination (Fig 3).
Table 5.
Number and ion composition of different chemical types of lakes and pans by dominant ions and by Valyashko classification, and the amount of overlap between the two methods.
Fig 5.
Mean values of the saturation index of Soda, Soda-Saline and Saline water chemical types with respect to major mineral assemblages that appear during the evaporation path.
Table 6.
Mean, median, minimum and maximum values of the saturation index of Soda, Soda-Saline and Saline chemical types of waters with respect to major mineral assemblages that appear during the evaporation path.
Fig 6.
Means, medians, ranges (min−max), and quartiles (25%−75%) of pH in the identified water chemical types.
Footnotes The term “saline” here means all the other types of inland saline waters without soda brine character.
Fig 7.
Overlap of the pH probability distribution between the identified water chemical types.
Footnotes Gray color represents the total overlap area of the density distributions. The term “saline” here means all the other types of inland saline waters without soda brine character.