Recent years, geologists have discovered large areas of paleo aeolian sand existed in shifting sand dune, semi fixed and fixed sandy lands in Ordos Plateau.

• 地质研究表明鄂尔多斯高原沙漠在史前即已存在，史籍也记载北魏时期该地区有大沙漠，“人造沙漠”的论点不能成立。