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}} The '''Baigong pipes''', which are also known as '''白公山鐵管''' ('''Bai Gongshan Iron Pipes''') and '''Delingha pipes''', are a series of pipe-like features identified by some as fossil trees or tree roots,<ref>"Alien Ruins Show" ''Xinmin Weekly''. October 13, 2003.</ref> found on and near White Mountain (白公山), transliterated as Mount Baigong (Báigōngshān), about {{convert|40|km|mi|adj=on|sp=us}} southwest of the city of [[Delingha]], in the [[Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture]], [[Qinghai]] Province, [[China]]. ==White Mountain (白公山)== Line 12 ⟶ 11: ==Tuosu Lake (Lake Toson)== Similar formations were found on shore and within [[Tuosu Lake]], also transliterated as ''Lake Toson,'' which lies 80 meters (260 feet) from the mouth of the largest cave. On the beach of the lake, about 40 meters (130 feet) from the mouth of the largest cave, apparently flat-lying, hollow, pipe-like features were found, reddish-brown, and ranging in diameter from 2 to 4.5 cm (0.8 to 1.8 inch) and have an east–west orientation. Another group of similar features, presumably vertical, either protrude from or lie just below the surface of the lake, but the reports are unclear.<ref name="xin1" /><ref name="li1" /> Tuosu Lake is a saline and alkaline lake<ref>Xiangzhong Li, Xin Zhou, Weiguo Liua, Zheng Wang, Yuxin He, Liming Xu, [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921818116300911 ''Carbon and oxygen isotopic records from Lake Tuosu over the last 120 years in the Qaidam Basin, Northwestern China: The implications for paleoenvironmental reconstruction''], Global and Planetary Change, Vol. 141, June 2016, p. 54-62.</ref> with a dominant bacterial population made of ''[[Halomonas]]''.<ref>Long Qifu, Feng Xiyuan, Liu Jing, Zhang Xin, Shen Guoping, Zhu Derui, [http://english.gyig.cas.cn/pu/Papers_of_EE/201707/t20170725_181254.html ''Microbial Diversity of Keluke-Tuosu Lake Wetland Reserve in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau''], Earth and environment, Vol.45, n° 4.</ref> It is of note that salty water (as opposite to pure water) produces [[hydrogen]] and [[oxygen]] when [[electrolysis|electrolysed]], and that [[Hydrogen-Oxygen Fuel Cell#Alkaline fuel cell (AFC)|hydrogen-oxygen fuel cells]] are commonly used to produce electricity (for example that type of cell was used as primary source of electrical energy in the Apollo space program).<ref>{{Cite journal|url = http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/roybiogmem/39/2.full.pdf|title = Francis Thomas Bacon. 21 December 1904-24 May 1992|last = Williams|first = K.R.|date = 1 February 1994|journal = Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society|doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1994.0001|access-date = 5 January 2015|volume = 39|pages = 2–9}}</ref> ==Similar features== Similar features have been found elsewhere, e.g. naturally occurring sandstone [[Liesegang rings (geology)|Liesegang-ring]] ''pipes'' in [[Arkansas]]<ref>[https://arkansasgeological.wordpress.com/2013/07/ ''Liesegang Band resembling an Iron Pipe.''], 2013, ''Arkansas Geological Survey'', Little Rock, Arkansas.</ref><ref>[https://arkansasgeological.wordpress.com/2015/02/19/geopic-of-the-week-sandstone-pipe/ "Geopic of the Week: Sandstone Pipe"], 2015, ''Arkansas Geological Survey'', Little Rock, Arkansas.</ref><ref>[https://arkansasgeological.wordpress.com/2015/02/20/more-views-of-sandstone-pipes/ "More Views of Sandstone Pipes"], 2015, ''Arkansas Geological Survey'', Little Rock, Arkansas.</ref> and ''hematite pipes'' and ''hematite columns'' found sandstones in [[Utah]].<ref name="BeitlerOthers2005a">Beitler, B., Parry, W.T. and Chan, M.A., 2005. [https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/sepm/jsedres/article-abstract/75/4/547/114198/fingerprints-of-fluid-flow-chemical-diagenetic?redirectedFrom=fulltext "Fingerprints of fluid flow: chemical diagenetic history of the Jurassic Navajo Sandstone, southern Utah."] ''Journal of Sedimentary Research'', 75(4), pp. 547–61.</ref><ref name="ChanOthers2000a">Chan, M.A., Parry, W.T. and Bowman, J.R., 2000. [http://archive.li.suu.edu/docs/ms130/AR/chan3.pdf "Diagenetic hematite and manganese oxides and fault-related fluid flow in Jurassic sandstones, southeastern Utah."] ''AAPG bulletin'', 84(9), pp. 1281–310.</ref> ==Investigation== | |||