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Red Beach, Panjin, China. Red Beach (simplified Chinese: 红海滩; traditional Chinese: 紅海灘; pinyin: Hóng hǎitān), located in Dawa County, Panjin, Liaoning, China, is famous for its landscape featuring the red plant of Suaeda salsa (Chinese: 碱蓬草) of the family Chenopodiaceae.
Yinggehai basin is lies at the southern end of the Red River fault zone, located at the Gulf of Tonkin.The tectonic origin of Yinggehai basin is controversial. [3] However, it is generally agreed that the basin is opened by the southeastward slip and clockwise rotation of the Indochina block along the Red River fault zone, [4] and that the basin is formed by deformation related to the strike ...
Zhangjiajie Gritstone-peak Forest, China's best preserved cluster of volcanoes and geological features in Hunan Province, in 2001 became among the first nationally designated geological park. In February 2004, UNESCO announced the World Network of Geological Parks as well as its first geology park conference to be held in Beijing from June 27 ...
Hiking trail at Tianyou Peak Red Cliff. The Danxia landform (Chinese: 丹霞地貌; pinyin: dānxiá dìmào) refers to various landscapes found in southeast, southwest and northwest China that "consist of a red bed characterized by steep cliffs". [1] It is a unique type of petrographic geomorphology found in China.
In 2003, the China Geological Survey discovered new reserves of rare earth metals in southern China, one of the largest in the world. In 2012, the China Geological Survey launched a nationwide project to map the distribution of shale gas resources in China, which led to the discovery of new reserves of this important energy resource.
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Dahongliutan (Chinese: 大红柳滩) or simply Hongliutan (Chinese: 红柳滩 [2]) is a village situated in Karakash river valley in the Hotan County, Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang, China. It is located along the China National Highway 219 , [ 1 ] and is the town just north of the disputed Aksai Chin region of China and India.
The largest lake in northern China, although growing urban and agricultural water use after 1950 reduced its size from more than 1000 km 2 to almost nothing in the 1980s. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] It is presently composed of 143 smaller lakes around 366 km 2 and is used for nature tourism , [ 33 ] but its size is now maintained by unsustainable use of ...