The steep cliffs along the Mingjiang River in Ningming County,located in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region,bear the primitive paintings of the Luoyue people,ancestors of the Zhuang ethnic group.This pain...
When talking about rich places on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau,we should not ignore Lhodrak in Shannan.With the popularity of Mount Kula Kangri,Lhodrak has become famous for its high mountains,lakes,and glaciers in the ...
ESPOL Polytechnic University research project:“Register of geological and mining heritage and its incidence in the defence and preservation of geodiversity in Ecuador”with institu-tional code CIPAT-01-2018.
Coastal zones, with their significant geodiversity, are vital areas for geotourism. Effective management is crucial to harness the geological interest of these sites as geotourism resources while ensuring their conser...
financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.41962009,41772197);the Innovation Fund of East China University of Technology(Grant No.DHYC202007)。
Tafoni are a type of cavernous weathering features widespread in different climate zones around the world,but their origin has not been fully understood.Little attention was paid on tafoni in conglomerates.Danxiashan ...
Longwall mining has existed in Utah for more than half a century.Much of this mining occurred at depths of cover that significantly exceed those encountered by most other US longwall operations.Deep cover causes high ...
Mose Labo from the Yi ethnic group grew up quite poor.In his early years,he lived in a small village high in the mountains,barely passed school exams,and eked out a living by raising goats.He never imagined moving int...
White puffy clouds drift past a bungalow facing a deep valley and a towering peak beyond it.Chirps of birds animate the idyllic scene without shattering its serenity.The bungalow with a wood-plank roof and mud walls i...
supported by the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China[Grant No:41872048,41372061,40972038];financial support from China Scholarship Council(No 201806010080).
To analyze the composition and structure of the pale blue outcrop from the UBC Cliffs and research the environmental significance of aerinite recorded in the sediments, mineral composition, bulk chemical composition a...
financially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41772197, 41602113);Open Research Fund from the Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Depositional Mineralization & Sedimentary Minerals (Shandong University of Science and Technology; Grant No. DMSM2017011);Jiangxi Provincial Graduate Innovation Fund Project (YC2018-S336)
The tafoni that develop in sandstone cliffs have attracted the interest of both scientists and the general public. A necklace-like tafone system, referred to here as beaded tafoni, has developed in the prominent cliff...