Stone Forest
by Mingna Wang, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
World karst essence. The Stone Forest in China was a vast expanse of sea during the Paleozoic era——some 270 million years ago. Later, the movement of tectonic plates altered the earth’s crust, causing the sea to recede and its limestone bottom to appear, thereby forming land. Due to the constant seeping of rain through the cracks in the limestone, some of the stone formation dissolved and the fissures broadened, producing a group of great sculptures of different shapes, all molded by nature.
Taken on 30
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2014
Submitted on 28 Feb 2015
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- Earth Magnetism & Rock Physics (341)
- Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology (849)
- Geomorphology (1255)
- Historical (147)
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