中文摘要：

传统的地球科学对于盐类研究主要集中于盐湖和古代盐类沉积,对于其他盐类聚集体,如泻湖、港湾、盐沼泽、泉水等研究较少,更未涉及其他行星的盐类聚集体。成盐元素约25种,由于其作用的广泛性和重要性以及近代科学技术的进步,对于盐类聚集体的研究已冲破单学科领域,不但在地球科学包括盐类资源科技领域日益扩大和深入,而且在生物学、医学、保健和环境生态学等也有了引人入胜的新发现,航天行星科学也开始涉及盐类研究领域,在宏观上已进入全球以至行星研究时期,在微观上已达到分子和基因层次;盐类及盐碱土开发已达到综合利用、整体开发的初始阶段。盐类科学研究已进入多学科交叉、在广度和深度上大为扩展的崭新时代,概称为“盐体系”研究和综合开发与保护管理阶段。

英文摘要：

In the traditional Earth sciences, salt research focuses on saline lake and ancient saline deposits, while other salt accumulations （both solid-phase and liquid-phase salt-bearing geologic bodies）, e.g. lagoons, estuaries, salt marshes and springs, are less studied, let alone salt accumulations in other planets. There are about 25 salt-forming elements, and due to the wide range and importance of their actions and with the progress in modern science and technology, the study of salt accumulations has broken through the monodisciplinary field. It has not only expanded and become more intensive in the Earth sciences, including the field of salt resource science and technology, but also new intriguing discoveries have been reported in biology, medicine, public health and environmental ecology, and furthermore, space and planetary science has begun to involve salt research. Macroscopically the research has entered the stage of global and even planetary research, and microscopically it has attained the molecule and gene level. The exploitation of salts and saline-alkaline soils has reached the stage of comprehensive use and total development. All these set a completely new stage for interdisciplinary salt research and great expansion of salt research in depth and breadth, which is generally known as the stage of ＂salt systems＂ research and comprehensive development, conservation and management.