青藏公路沿线上新世—早更新世沉积地层普遍发育在昆仑山和唐古拉山之间的一些较大的盆地中,如昆仑山垭口盆地、楚玛尔河盆地、北麓河盆地、沱沱河盆地、通天河盆地等。为了配合青藏地区的社会主义建设,青海省地质局水文一大队、中国地质科学院地质力学研究所和水文地质研究所及西藏自治区地热地质大队等单位,对格尔木—拉萨千余公 The Pliocene-Early Pleistocene sedimentary strata along the Qinghai-Tibet Highway generally develop in some of the larger basins between the Kunlun Mountains and the Tanggula, such as the Kunlun Pass, the Chumar River, the Beiluhe, the Tuotuohe Basin, Tongtianhe Basin and so on. In order to tie in with the socialist construction in the Qinghai-Tibet region, the Hydrological Brigade of the Geological Bureau of Qinghai Province, the Institute of Geomechanics of the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences and the Institute of Hydrogeology and the Geothermal Geological Brigade of the Tibet Autonomous Region and other units,