AMAZING NATURE!!! MAGICAL RAINBOW MOUNTAINS OF ZHANGYE DANXIA IN CHINA 1700 km the length of an arc of Danxia “Rainbow Mountains” formed from coloured sediment, in China. This layer cake of amazing colours is a real landscape located at Zhangye Danxia Landform Geological Park in Gansu Province. Even for the undeniably powerful Mother Nature, creating something this arty wasn’t easy. It in fact took 24 million years of painstakingly laying down mineral deposits to form these rocks. The rockforms of Zhangye Danxia range in colour from deep red to yellow and green, the highly contrasting bands of colour glowing most intensely after rainfall. The area is fast becoming a popular tourist attraction for the sleepy town of Zhangye, and the region has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2010. There is a similar land formation in British Columbia called the Rainbow Range, which is formed from a mixture of volcanic rock and various minerals.
Posted on: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 14:01:56 +0000
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