Stone forest in Yunan

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Lixin Wu

The stone forest in She Lin Geopark, Yunan, China, is one of the most outstanding works of planet Earth in process of geological evolution. The formation of this Karst landscape originated from the upraise and erosion of marine deposited limestone of thickness more than hundred meters. The horizontally bedded carbonate rock, cut by several groups of vertical cracks into many many parts, got erosion from water and organisms. With the development of erosion in millions of years, different rock parts got separated and many stone walls and/or pillars got formed gradually. Finally, the assembling of stone walls and/or pillars in a large area（N24°38′~24°58′, E103°11′~103°29′）looks like a dark forest.

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Type Image Format JPG Size 3.9 MB Aspect 4:3 Width 3968 px Height 2976 px Brand Huawei Model LON-AL00 Exposure 4 mm f/2.2 1/994 s ISO 50 Coordinates 24.8177, 103.3240 Tint Greenish black Submitted 14 February 2018 Taken 28 July 2017