Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Rainbow Range



China seems to have it all :).   This is the Zhangye Danxia Landform Geological Park (Chinese: 丹霞地貌; pinyin: dānxiá dìmào) in Gansu, China.  The range is densely pack with layers of minerals and rocks that are dramatically striated into a rainbow of colors.  There are as many colors and landforms covering a large area of southeast China.  About 80 million years ago the building  blocks of Danxia Landforms began.  They consisted of cretaceous red sandstone and conglomerate laid down through sedimentation of lakes and streams.  Weathering, erosion, tectonic plate movement and more...  created this below......  just like magic!



 


 

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