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Fansipan (Vietnamese: Phan Xi Păng, listen ⓘ) is a mountain in Vietnam. Its height was 3,143 metres (10,312 ft) in 1909, and it presently stands at 3,147.3 metres (10,326 ft). [ 1 ] It is the highest mountain on the Indochinese peninsula (comprising Vietnam, Laos , and Cambodia ), hence its nickname, "the Roof of Indochina".
This sedimentary unit is thought to have formed within hours of impact. [24] A 2020 study concluded that the Chicxulub crater was formed by an inclined (45–60° to horizontal) impact from the northeast. [25] The site of the crater at the time of impact was a marine carbonate platform. [26]
The geology of Vietnam is divided into five structural blocks : Northeast (NE), Northwest (NW), Truongson, Kon Tum and Nambo. The NE block is a part of the South China plate, in which strata and igneous rocks have been found dating from the Early Paleozoic to the Quaternary. The NW and Truongson blocks are regarded as NW-SE trending Paleozoic ...
Cratons of South America and Africa during the Triassic Period when the two continents were joined as part of the Pangea supercontinent. A craton (/ ˈ k r eɪ t ɒ n / KRAYT-on, / ˈ k r æ t ɒ n / KRAT-on, or / ˈ k r eɪ t ən / KRAY-tən; [1] [2] [3] from Ancient Greek: κράτος kratos "strength") is an old and stable part of the continental lithosphere, which consists of Earth's two ...
The early development of the Andean orogeny in southernmost South America affected also the Antarctic Peninsula. [42] In southern Patagonia at the onset of the Andean orogeny in the Jurassic , extensional tectonics created the Rocas Verdes Basin , a back-arc basin whose southeastern extension survives as the Weddell Sea in Antarctica.
The Amisan Formation (Korean: 아미산층) is an Late Triassic geologic formation in South Korea. Fossil records from this formation include plants, insects, and fish remains. Fossil records from this formation include plants, insects, and fish remains.
The so-called Gooney monument was carved from a 30-foot (9.1 m) mahogany log as a personal project by a U.S. Navy dental officer stationed on the island. The project began in 1949. The statue was 11 feet (3.4 m) tall and stood for 40 years before succumbing to termite damage. It was replaced with a mock egg after its removal. [53]
Panorama of part of the Snowdon Massif including Snowdon (centre right) taken from Mynydd Mawr.The Glyderau are visible in the distance.. The bedrock geology of Snowdonia is largely formed from a sequence of sedimentary and igneous rocks originating during the early Palaeozoic (the Cambrian, Ordovician and Silurian periods, lasting between 539 and 419 million years ago).