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South China Karst (Stone Forest)

South China Karst - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
The stone forests of Shilin developed over 270 million years during four major geological time periods from the Permian to present, illustrating the episodic ...
Stone Forest - Wikipedia
Main entrance to the Shilin Stone Forest. The Stone Forest or Shilin is a notable set of limestone formations about 500 km2 in area located in Shilin Yi ...
South China Karst | For UNESCO World Heritage Travellers
During my trip to Yunnan Province in 1994, I visited the Stone Forest (Shilin) which is close to Kunming. Already at that moment in time, before the Chinese ...
South China Karst | Natural World Heritage Sites
For example the region of Shilin Stone Forest is subject to frequent earthquakes, whilst Jinfoshan is vulnerable to rock collapses and landslides. These natural ...
Exploration and Development of Ground Water from the Stone ...
Stone forest aquifers are the most widely exploited sources for ground water in the vast south China karst belt. These aquifers occupy a thin epikarst zone ...
Karst
Jul 3, 2024 ... Natural karst limestone formations create Shilin, or the Stone Forest, in Kunming, China. ... called the South China Karst, which spreads ...
Sister Parks - Mammoth Cave National Park (U.S. National Park ...
Jan 4, 2022 ... Shilin Stone Forest National Park, part of the South China Karst World Heritage Site, is known for its aboveground limestone “forests.” Chinese ...
[Travel] Kunming, Traveling to Shilin Stone Forest – 101MonkeyMagic
Mar 22, 2017 ... The park divided into two; Naigu Stone Forest (乃古石林) and Suogeyi Village (所各邑村) and declared as UNESCO World Heritage Sites' South China ...
SOUTH CHINA KARST - World Heritage Datasheet
The stone forests of Shilin developed over 270 million years during four major geological time periods from the Permian to present, illustrating the episodic ...
Getting away: Stone Forest | GoKunming
Jun 3, 2010 ... Part of the South China Karst UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Stone Forest (石林) is the closest of Yunnan's three heritage sites to Kunming ...
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