LANDSCAPE FEATURES AND
ORIGIN OF DANXIA LANDFORM OF LONGHU
GLOBAL GEOPARK IN JIANGXI,
CHINA
YU ZHEN1,
GUO FUSHENG1, JIANG YONGBIAO1, HU ZHONGHUA2
AND WU ZHIYONG2
1East
China Institute of Technology, Fuzhou 344000, Jiangxi
2Longhu Mt World Geopark Management
Committee, Yingtan, 335004, Jiangxi
Abstract:
With unique and abundant
geological tourism resources, the Mt.
Longhu World Geopark - which lies in the southern suburbs of Yingtan City in
Jiangxi Province, China - has become an integrated geopark that contains
typical geomorphological landforms, besides cultural and natural landscapes.
The most characteristic among all features are the different landforms based on
the geological substrate, primarily the Danxia Landform, but also landforms
based on volcanic rock or derived from a tectonic origin. Danxia landform is a
special landform type characterized by rock walls and cliffs on red terrestrial
sandstones and conglomerates. This particular landform in Mt. Longhu
represents the national Danxia landform type. It is considered a relic
erosional stage, which is mainly expressed as isolated peaks, peak forests and
monadnocks. It possesses high tourism value for further development.
The landscape features of
Danxia landform of Mt. Longhu World Geopark are introduced and the genesis of
this sort of landform is analysed in function of geological history,
stratigraphy, tectonism and weathering processes.