#zhangye

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Rainbow Mountains, Zhangye National Geopark, China: The Rainbow Mountains are cretaceous sandstones and siltstones that were deposited in China before the Himalayan Mountains were formed. The sand and silt was deposited with iron and trace minerals that provided it with the key ingredient to form the colors we see today....Known for its colorful rock formations, Zhangye National Geopark is located in Sunan and Linze counties within the prefecture-level city of Zhangye, in Gansu, China. It covers an area of 322 square kilometres. Wikipedia

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Zhangye 张掖 is a prefecture-level city in Gansu province, China. It borders Inner Mongolia on the north and Qinghai on the south.

Zhangye lies on the frontier of China proper, historically protecting it from the nomads of the north and permitting its armies access to the Tarim Basin. During the Han dynasty, Han armies were often engaged against nomadic people (e.g. the Xiongnu) in this area. It was also an important outpost on the Silk Road. Before being over-run by the Mongols, it was dominated by the Western Xia dynasty, and before that it was a vassal state for the Uyghurs.

The Yuan Dynasty’s founder (Genghis Khan’s grandson) Kublai Khan is said to have been born in Zhangye. Marco Polo's journal states that he spent a year in the region during his journey to China.

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Zhangye Danxia National Geopark, China, 張掖丹霞国家地質公園, 甘粛, 中国

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Florian Delalée Explored The Beauty Of Earth And Captured The Most Beautiful Landscapes Of China

Zhangye, Gansu

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zhangye, gansu, china

by junbo

[soloyatra]

Discover Top 6 The Best Landscape Place In The World (2024)

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Qilian Mountain, Sunan Yugur Autonomous County, Zhangye, China

Taken by Zongnan Bao

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Zhangye Danxia National Geopark, China

Rocks are hardy heroes that have played a big part in human history since the Stone Age. They served as humanity's first tools and as nature's journals, carrying fossils of ancient organisms and documenting changes in geological processes. A great example of the latter is Zhangye National Geopark's Rainbow Mountains in China. This geological wonder displays vivid colours: reds, oranges, yellows and purples, which are layers of sedimentary sandstone rock. These unique mountains were formed through erosion over millions of years, creating the patterns and colours that define this landscape.

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Zhangye National Geopark, Gansu

[fleshadept]

things i did not realize until relatively late in life because i grew up on the great plains where it is so flat you can see for 50+ miles on a clear day if you're in a tall building

not only do some people live next to mountains, some even can see mountains AND ocean easily from where they live. mind boggling.

in many places on earth, trees get taller than a two or three story building. i didn't see trees like this until i was almost 18

in some places, even though the ocean is very large, you can see other land masses from one land mass. sometimes you can even see several islands!!!!

there are places that are green. really, truly green, not the beige-green of dry plains brush. the greenness in ghibli movies is not exaggerated for artistic effect, some places are actually just like that

in many places when it rains it does not necessarily thunderstorm also. i didn't realize i always assume it'll thunderstorm when it rains until i met someone who is not from here

mountains are BIG. however big you think they are if you've never seen them irl, they are bigger. unimaginably huge. and more often than not they're not standalone like mt. fuji they are part of a big long ridge

when most people say "hill" they do not mean "mound of dirt small enough to fit maybe one building", they mean what i considered a mountain as a kid

[bacony-cakes]

i fucking hate adobe's ai-generated stock images of every possible subject.

on the left are real images from wikimedia, on the right are adobe's fake images that were shat out by a computer.

zhangye danxia:

caño cristales:

delicate arch:

pamukkale:

lake hillier:

they're lying! oh, it pisses me right off!!!

fuck stock image companies.

[constance-mcentee]

Sunday, 21 January 2024

Windows periodically changes the background of the login screen, and I often get to see amazing places from around the world this way. Yesterday, my login screen changed to this stunning photo from Zhangye Geopark in China:

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A photo of the Badlands of the Zhangye National Geopark. The landscape consists of layers of sandstone of various colors, pushed to an angle by the same forces that created the Himalyas, according to the Wikipedia article about Zhangye National Geopark.

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Zhangye Danxia National Geological Park

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Les différentes montagnes arc-en-ciel dans le monde

Nouvel article publié sur https://www.2tout2rien.fr/les-differentes-montagnes-arc-en-ciel-dans-le-monde/

Les différentes montagnes arc-en-ciel dans le monde

[newmexicow]

China's Zhangye Danxia

China, the rainbow mountains in the Zhangye Danxia geological park These are very steep rocks and hundreds of meters high; Their peculiarity is the multicolored layers formed over the course of almost 25 million years which, depending on the light, seem to change hue. This particular type of rock formations are called danxia and are the result of the erosion processes of red sandstone, which over the millennia has been shaped by wind and atmospheric agents. The desert's typical atmospheric conditions, characterized by strong winds, and the cycles of freeze and thaw were fundamental for the formation of these rocks.

Cina, le montagne arcobaleno nel parco geologico di Zhangye Danxia

Si tratta di rocce molto ripide e alte centinaia di metri; la loro particolarità sono gli strati multicolore formatisi nel corso di quasi 25 milioni di anni che, a seconda della luce, sembrano cambiare tonalità.

Questo particolare tipo di conformazioni rocciose sono chiamate danxia e sono il risultato dei processi di erosione dell’arenaria rossa, che nei millenni è stata modellata dal vento e dagli agenti atmosferici. Le condizioni atmosferiche tipiche del deserto, caratterizzate da forti venti, e i cicli di gelo e disgelo sono stati fondamentali per la formazione di queste rocce.

Published by Georgia Lovera in ASIA

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Zhangye, China [1000x667] [OC] - Author: felixzhanggp