The Yellow River in the source area occurred from the last Late Pleistocene to the earliest Holocene, and meanwhile the Yellow River captured the current of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

• 在晚更新世末期到全新世初期，封闭黄河源区的多石峡被切开，湖水外泄，现今的黄河形成了，同时发生了袭夺长江水系的水流。