Xinjiang YuTian volcanic cluster

Publié le 14/01/2011 à 07:51 par separatetravel Tags : Attractions

Marcel volcano from the south of the Kunlun Mountains, activity time about 143 million years ago. Lava middle layer located on both sides of the river Kerry Jas high terraces, volcanic lava divided into two levels, the next 7 m thick, is volcanic lava rocks and dense block, covering the gravel with a gravel layer is the contact surface baking traces; sandwiched between two layers of 12.3 meters thick gravel layer, the upper 20 meters thick lava, rock that is dense and massive rock and vesicular rock.

Upper and lower lava, are formed in the Quaternary, Pleistocene, are two different periods of volcanic eruptions of basalt, terrace basalt cliffs, the shape of the shape of many strange monsters disdain for the distance, spectacular. Volcanic rocks cover the six river terraces of sand and gravel layer, and its coverage of the wind on the sandy loess layer. Two phases of volcanic lava, lava flows are the early Pleistocene.

Two volcanic activity in the south of the Kunlun Mountains alpine zone, and the huge, huge as the torrent of lava, like out of the mountains, covered in the piedmont alluvial plain sloping gravel layer. It studies the formation of the Tibetan Plateau and Kunlun Mountains and the environmental evolution of great significance. At present in the original volcanic Doppler Lu preservation condition, because its famous scholars at home and abroad to visit, often to visit research scholars.
May 1951, to Nan Kunlun Mountains in central YuTian there is a volcanic eruption, was filled with smoke, fires raging, rock soaring, roaring like thunder, went on for several days and nights, piled up a 145-meter-high cone body.