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Purnululu National Park
Purnuluru National Park covers an area of 239,723 hectares and is located in Western Australia. The park contains the Bungle Bungle Range, which consists of quartz sandstone of the Devonian period, which has been eroded over 20 million years to form a series of honeycomb-like towers or cones, whose steep slopes are clearly marked by regular horizontal bands of dark grey cyanobacterial shells (single-celled photosynthetic organisms). These cones are outstanding examples of karst, and their existence and uniqueness are due to a variety of interacting geological, biological, erosional and climatic phenomena.
Xingtai Grand Canyon Scenic Area
Xingtai Grand Canyon, also known as the Canyon Group and Taihang Gorge Group, has always been called the "World Gorge" by geologists. There are hundreds of main landscapes: Changzui Gorge, Liushui Gorge, Huangchao Gorge, Wangmao Peak, Longtan Waterfall, Guanzhen Pavilion, Ape Man Head, etc., like bright pearls, inlaid in the mountains. The formation of the Grand Canyon is related to the Yanshan Movement. A billion years ago, it was still a vast ocean. When the crust rose and broke, the sea water also fluctuated and continuously washed the mountain. Later, it gradually formed today's unique canyon landform. The vicissitudes of time are in full view, and people can't help but sigh that nature is the god who dominates everything. The scenic area contains precious geological resources: turtle back stone, wave mark stone, thousand-layer rock, the stock is extremely rare, and it has formed a unique landform landscape. The landscapes such as Liushui Gorge and Shenying Gorge are formed on the basis of special quartz sandstone rock structure, and after continuous erosion by running water and wind and rain, they finally form a strange natural stone landscape.
Ennedi Massif: Natural and Cultural Landscape
In the northeast of the country, the sandstone Ennedi Massif has been eroded over time by water and wind, creating a plateau with canyons and valleys, presenting a spectacular landscape characterized by cliffs, natural arches and pitons. The permanent presence of water in the largest canyons plays a vital role in the ecosystem of the massif, sustaining plant, animal and human life. Thousands of drawings and carvings are painted on the rock surfaces of caves, canyons and shelters, presenting one of the largest rock art complexes in the Sahara.
Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka
The Bhimobetka rock shelters are located in the foothills of the Vindhya mountain range on the southern edge of the central plateau of India. Amidst a huge sandstone outcrop, above relatively dense forest, there are five groups of natural rock shelters that display paintings that appear to date from the Mesolithic period to the historic period. The cultural traditions of the inhabitants of the 21 villages near the site are very similar to those depicted in the rock paintings.
Temple Zone of Sambor Prei Kuk, Archaeological Site of Ancient Ishanapura
The archaeological site of Sambor Prei, which means "temple in the dense forest" in Khmer, has been identified as Isanapura, the capital of the Chenla Empire that flourished in the late 6th and early 7th centuries AD. The site includes more than one hundred temples, ten of which are octagonal and are unique examples of their kind in Southeast Asia. The decorative sandstone elements at the site are typical of the pre-Angkor decorative style known as Sambor Prei. Some of these elements, including lintels, pediments and colonnades, are true masterpieces. The art and architecture that developed here became a model for the rest of the region and laid the foundation for the unique Khmer style of the Angkor period.
Meteora
In the almost inaccessible sandstone peaks, monks settled on these “pillars” from the 11th century onwards. Despite the difficulties, 24 such monasteries were founded during the great revival of monastic ideals in the 15th century. The 16th-century frescoes in these monasteries mark a key stage in the development of post-Byzantine painting.
Greater Blue Mountains Area
The Greater Blue Mountains region consists of 1.03 million hectares of sandstone plateaus, escarpments and canyons, dominated by temperate eucalypt forests. The region, comprised of eight reserves, is renowned for its representation of the evolutionary adaptation and diversification of eucalypts during the post-Gondwanan isolation period of the Australian mainland. There are 91 species of eucalypts in the Greater Blue Mountains region, and the region is also noted for its exceptional representation of the structure and ecological diversity of eucalypts associated with a wide range of habitats. The region is an important representative of Australia's biodiversity, with 10% of vascular plants and a large number of rare or threatened species, including endemic and evolutionary relict species such as the Wollemi pine, which persist in highly restricted microsites.
Mangshan National Forest Park
Mangshan National Forest Park is located in Changping District, northwest of Beijing. The park covers a total area of 8,622 hectares. It is adjacent to 7 towns and 47 administrative villages in Changping District and is about 35 kilometers away from Beijing. It is the largest national forest park in Beijing. It is named Mangshan because of its undulating mountains like a python. Mangshan is named because of its undulating mountains like a python. The main component of the mountain is sandstone. The scenic area is full of lush mountains and forests with a forest coverage rate of 96%. It is a veritable "natural oxygen bar". There are 176 kinds of trees and flowers, among which evergreen trees such as Pinus tabulaeformis, Platycladus orientalis, and Pinus bungeana are the main tree species, making Mangshan evergreen all year round. The air in the forest area is fresh. When the mountain wind blows, the pine waves are wafting, and visitors bathe in the sea of forests, feeling relaxed and happy. Dozens of flowers and trees, including jasmine, mountain peach, wild apricot, forsythia, lilac, plum, peony, rose, cherry, etc., are in full bloom, filling the garden with spring colors; the leaves of cotinus, maple, torch tree, and ground ivy turn bright red in autumn, dyeing the forest full of color.