Monday 16 July 2012

Rainbow Country

Nature - my favourite artist!

Danxia Landform at Nantaizi village of Nijiaying town, in Linzhe county of Zhangye, Gansu province of China.


Villagers walk a path between two stunning rock formations
Formed of layers of reddish sandstone, the terrain has over time been eroded into a series of mountains surrounded by curvaceous cliffs and unusual rock formationsThe World Heritage Committee decided to include China Danxia Landform in the World Heritage List at its 2010 meeting held in Brasilia, capital of BrazilThe landform is a unique type of petrographic geomorphology which is found only in China which consists of red-colored sandstones and conglomerates of largely Cretaceous age
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