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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.
Approximate area: 67,800,000 km 2 (26,200,000 sq mi) [1] Movement 1: South: Speed 1: 7–14 mm (0.28–0.55 in)/year: Features: Asia (excluding the Arabian Peninsula, the Indian subcontinent, and the area east of the Chersky Range in eastern Siberia), Europe (including a part of Iceland), Arctic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean: 1 Relative to the African ...
The geology of Europe is varied and complex, and gives rise to the wide variety of landscapes found across the continent, from the Scottish Highlands to the rolling plains of Hungary. Europe's most significant feature is the dichotomy between highland and mountainous Southern Europe and a vast, partially underwater, northern plain ranging from ...
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 ...
The Amurian microplate is a division within the Eurasian plate, with an unknown western boundary, defined on the south by the Qinling suture zone [additional citation(s) needed] in central China and the Baikal Rift Zone and Stanovoy Mountains on the north. [2] The Baikal Rift Zone is considered a boundary between the Amurian Plate and the ...
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.
Geography of China; Continent: Asia: Region: East/Southeast Asia: Coordinates: 1]: Area: Ranked 3/4: • Total: 9,596,960 [1] km 2 (3,705,410 sq mi): • Land: 97.2 [1] %: • Water: 2.8 [1] %: Coastline: 14,500 [1] km (9,000 mi): Borders: Afghanistan, Bhutan, Myanmar, India, North Korea, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Laos, Mongolia, Nepal, Russia, Tajikistan, Vietnam: Highest point: Mount ...
Red Beach may refer to: Red Beach, New Zealand, a suburb on the Hibiscus Coast, Auckland, New Zealand; Red Beach (Panjin), Dawa County, Panjin, Liaoning, China; Red Beach (Santorini), Greece; Red Beach Base Area, a complex of former U.S. military bases in Vietnam