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Grand Canyon National Park
The Grand Canyon was carved by the Colorado River and is nearly 1,500 meters deep. It is the most spectacular canyon in the world. It is located in Arizona and runs through the Grand Canyon National Park. Its horizontal layers recreate the geological history of the Grand Canyon. In the past 2 billion years, humans have also had prehistoric traces of adapting to extremely harsh environments during their evolution.
Rainforests of the Atsinanana
The Achinanana rainforests include six national parks spread across the eastern part of the island. These remnant forests are essential for the ongoing ecological processes necessary to sustain Madagascar's unique biodiversity, reflecting the island's geological history. At the end of the last century, Madagascar's plants and animals evolved in isolation more than 60 million years ago. The rainforests are remembered for their importance to ecological and biological processes, as well as for their biodiversity and the endangered species they support. Many species are rare, with primates and lemurs being particularly threatened.
Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst
The karst caves are diverse in shape and concentrated in a small area. The 712 caves discovered so far constitute a typical temperate karst system and present an extremely rare combination of tropical climate and glacial climate, providing the possibility for studying geological history of tens of millions of years.
Vredefort Dome
Located approximately 120 km southwest of Johannesburg, the Vreedefort Dome is a representative section of a large meteorite impact structure (or crater). Dating back to 2.023 billion years ago, it is the oldest crater ever discovered on Earth. With a radius of 190 km, it is also the largest and most deeply eroded. The Vreedefort Dome witnessed the world's largest known single energy release event, which had devastating effects around the globe, including, according to some scientists, major evolutionary changes. It provides key evidence for the Earth's geological history and is essential for understanding the evolution of the Earth. Despite the importance of impact sites to Earth history, geological activity on the Earth's surface has caused evidence for most impact sites to disappear, with Vreedefort being the only example that provides a complete geological section of a star-shaped crater below the crater floor.
Vredefort Dome
Located approximately 120 km southwest of Johannesburg, the Vreedefort Dome is a representative section of a large meteorite impact structure (or crater). Dating back to 2.023 billion years ago, it is the oldest crater ever discovered on Earth. With a radius of 190 km, it is also the largest and most deeply eroded. The Vreedefort Dome witnessed the world's largest known single energy release event, which had devastating effects around the globe, including, according to some scientists, major evolutionary changes. It provides key evidence for the Earth's geological history and is essential for understanding the evolution of the Earth. Despite the importance of impact sites to Earth history, geological activity on the Earth's surface has caused evidence for most impact sites to disappear, with Vreedefort being the only example that provides a complete geological section of a star-shaped crater below the crater floor.
Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains
The Barberton Makhonwa Mountains are located in northeastern South Africa and comprise 40% of the Barberton Greenstone Belt, one of the oldest geological formations in the world. The property represents the best-preserved sequence of volcanic and sedimentary rocks dating back to 3.6 to 3.25 billion years ago and is a treasure trove of information on surface conditions, meteorite impacts, volcanic activity, continental formation processes and the environment of early life.
Yuanguqi Stone Forest Scenic Area
The Proterozoic Stone Forest in Ji County is located in Maojiayu, east of Ji County. The geological structure is the dolomite strata of the Yangzhuang Formation and the Wumishan Formation of the Middle and Upper Proterozoic 1.3-8 billion years ago. The naturally formed strange stone landscape is ingenious, like a dragon and a beast, and the creation is magical. Why is it named the Proterozoic Stone Forest? This is a name confirmed by geological age. The earth on which human beings depend for survival has a long history of 4.6 billion years from its formation to the present. In geological science, for the convenience of research, scientists divide the formation of the earth to the present into five geological ages, from ancient times to the present, namely the Archean, Proterozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic. The geological profile of Ji County was formed in the middle and late Proterozoic, so its strata are called the Middle and Upper Proterozoic. The rock strata here were formed in the Proterozoic, and the stone is peculiar, so it is named the Proterozoic Stone Forest. Maojiayu is surrounded by mountains in the southeast, northwest, and northeast, forming a closed space. It is a naturally formed natural "paradise". Peaceful and quiet. There is no noise, no pollution, and no interference from bad weather such as sandstorms and hail. It allows people to be in a highly quiet state anytime and anywhere, playing a health-care role of calming the mind and nourishing the spirit. In the Lover's Valley, there are lovers' caves, natural couple tents, lions welcoming guests, two tigers guarding the door, mandarin duck trees, mandarin duck fruits, mandarin duck pines, etc.
Baqidong Scenic Area
Baqi Cave is located in Mentougou District, Beijing, only 500 meters away from the famous Tanzhe Temple. Baqi Cave is a deep ancient cave with a total length of 1,350 meters. It is famous for its unique folds of "8" and eight wonders, so it is known as "a wonder of the divine cave created by heaven and earth". In history, there is a saying that "Tanzhe Temple came first, and Youzhou City came later". When Buddhism was first introduced to Yancheng in the Jin Dynasty of my country, many monks preached in the area of Tanzhe Temple. Therefore, there are many god-like Buddha statues and monks' practice pictures in the cave. Baqi Cave has three halls and 28 scenic spots along the way, which are completely consistent with the cosmology of "Three Huans and Twenty-Eight Constellations" of ancient astronomers. The three caves are "Xiaoyao Hall", "Zhile Hall", and "Yuzhou Hall" respectively. The three halls have their own characteristics. Xiaoyao Hall is magnificent, Zhile Hall is ethereal, and Yuzhou Hall is spacious. The complex rock structure and strange geological structure of this cave are rare in China. They also suggested opening a geological museum here. What is most puzzling is that the natural landscape of the rocks in the cave is quite similar to the scenic spots in Tanzhe Temple. Most of the eight major landscapes in the cave, such as the 8-shaped folds, the flying dragon in the sky, the dangerous passage, the dragon in front and the tiger behind, the magic pot, Jigong, the dragon pool, and the strange murals, can be found in Tanzhe Temple outside the cave. Especially the stone pot, which is similar in size to the copper pot in Tanzhe Temple and looks very similar. The deep pool at the bottom of the cave is clear and transparent, and the waterway is winding, which also coincides with the name of "Tanzhe Temple". There are also the traditional Chinese characters "China" on the stone wall above the pool, and the lines of the patterns on the rocks next to it are smooth, like ancient murals. Whether these landscapes and patterns are natural coincidences or artificially excavated by our ancestors has become an unsolved mystery.
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park
The park, formerly known as Uluru (Ayers Rock - Mount Olgas) National Park, features spectacular geological formations that dominate the vast red sandy plains of central Australia. Uluru is a huge monolith and Kata Tjuta is a rock dome located west of Uluru that formed part of the traditional belief system of one of the oldest human societies in the world. The traditional owners of Uluru-Kata Tjuta are the Anangu Aboriginal people.
Carlsbad Caverns National Park
New Mexico's karst landscape consists of more than 80 recognized caves. These caves are not only large in size, but also rich in mineral formations and beautiful in beauty. Lechuguilla Cave stands out from the others, providing an underground laboratory where geological and biological processes can be studied in a pristine environment.
Alejandro de Humboldt National Park
The complex geology and varied topography have resulted in an unparalleled diversity of ecosystems and species in the Caribbean islands, creating one of the most biodiverse tropical islands on Earth. Many of the underlying rocks are toxic to plants, so species must adapt to these harsh conditions in order to survive. This unique evolutionary process has led to the emergence of many new species, and the park is one of the most important sites for the conservation of endemic plants in the Western Hemisphere. Endemism is also very high for both vertebrates and invertebrates.
Qingchui Peak National Forest Park
Qingchuifeng National Forest Park is commonly known as Bangchui Mountain and was called Shiting in ancient times. It is located in the suburbs of Chengde City, Hebei Province. It has a total area of 10,600 hectares and is about 2.5 kilometers away from the city. It is planned to be divided into four scenic areas, which are integrated with the Summer Resort and the Outer Eight Temples. The terrain of Qingchuifeng National Forest Park belongs to the low mountain and hilly area. In terms of geotectonic structure, it belongs to the transition zone between the Inner Mongolian anticline and the Yanshan subsidence zone. About 70 million years ago, during the global orogenic movement, strata of different eras rose to land with the movement of the earth's crust, forming a geological unit of low mountain Jinling, and various rock shapes were produced through the dissolution of magma and carbon dioxide in water. After long-term weathering and erosion, various strange peaks, strange stones, caves, and cliffs were naturally formed, forming the Chengde Danxia landform landscape.