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Stone forest (石林) in Chinese refers to pinnacle-shaped karst, [13] such as the ones in the Yellow River Stone Forest. The park has a total area of 50 square kilometres (19 sq mi), and the ancient stone forest group covers 10 square kilometres (3.9 sq mi), which is formed in the lower Pleistocene Wuquanshan proluvial gravel layer 2.1 million ...
Yellow River Stone forest canyon. Baiyin is part loess plateau, part desert. Elevation ranges from 1,275 to 3,321 meters (4,183 to 10,896 feet) above sea-level. The prefecture-level city has either a cool arid climate (Köppen BWk) or a cool semi-arid climate (BSk) is very arid with only 110–352 mm (4.3–13.9 in) of annual precipitation.
The Bingling Temple (simplified Chinese: 炳灵寺; traditional Chinese: 炳靈寺; pinyin: Bǐnglíng Sì) is a series of grottoes filled with Buddhist sculpture carved into natural caves and caverns in a canyon along the Yellow River. It lies just north of where the Yellow River empties into the Liujiaxia Reservoir.
Lanzhou [a] is the capital and largest city of Gansu province in northwestern China. [6] Located on the banks of the Yellow River, it is a key regional transportation hub, connecting areas further west by rail to the eastern half of the
This is a list of the nationally designated protected areas of China.There are many forms of protected areas in China. Based on their relative importance, each type of protected area can be further graded into two to three levels (national, provincial and prefectural/county level).
The 100-kilometer (60-mile) race was held Saturday in the Yellow River Stone Forest tourist site in Baiyin city in Gansu province. Participants were not rookies. One of the deceased was a well ...
On 22 May 2021, 21 professional runners died from hypothermia out of the 172 competing in a government-run 100-kilometre (62 mi) trail running race [note 2] held in the Yellow River Stone Forest in Jingtai County, Gansu, China.
FILE - The iconic Old Faithful Geyser springs to life (every 90 minutes) in Yellowstone National Park's Upper Geyser Basin on September 18, 2022, in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.