Danxia land, unique geomorphology of colorful rock type in China, which is characterized by slices of red sedimentary rocks on the steep slopes.
About 100 million years ago there was an internal basin huge with a full silt that its campaign of
water from the surrounding mountains, and with the global rise in temperatures dried up the basin, and in this arid conditions oxidized sediments and turned to the color of rust, and after about 30 million years ago formed on the pelvis red layer color a thickness of up to 3,700 meters known as the chalk bed, and on the top there is a solid layer thickness of 1,300 meters formed during the Cretaceous period, which worked gradually to form Mount Danxia summit, and during the 30 million years following increased movement mountain Revolution pelvic entire several times.
About 100 million years ago there was an internal basin huge with a full silt that its campaign of
water from the surrounding mountains, and with the global rise in temperatures dried up the basin, and in this arid conditions oxidized sediments and turned to the color of rust, and after about 30 million years ago formed on the pelvis red layer color a thickness of up to 3,700 meters known as the chalk bed, and on the top there is a solid layer thickness of 1,300 meters formed during the Cretaceous period, which worked gradually to form Mount Danxia summit, and during the 30 million years following increased movement mountain Revolution pelvic entire several times.
Movement mountain revolution is still continuing in Mount Danxia area over the past 500,000 years, which led to the average height of 0.87 meters every 10,000 years, where the rock walls and cliffs of the territory of Danxia is made up of red sandstone and conglomerates, and the water flows down through the cracks, which works the erosion of sedimentary rocks and leaves behind rocks scattered red that we see now.
Danxia land looks like karst terrain that form in limestone areas, and as the rocks that posed a Hajjar sand and conglomerates have been called pseudo-karst terrain.
Very strange feature in the landscape of Danxia is the formation of many caves of different sizes and shapes, which tend to be shallow and isolated, unlike real karst terrain where caves tend to form deep and interconnected networks.
Word launched Danxia colored terrain relative to the Mount of the same name and located in one of China's provinces, where the colorful land the most famous are located.
Select geologists and geographers for the past 70 years, more than 700 colorful place of terrain in China, mostly in the Southeast and Southwest China.
At present Danxia Mountain has become a research terrain Chinese Danxia land base, and in 2010 six landscapes included in the World Heritage sites of Danxia.
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