- Wulong Fairy Mountain
About Wulong ❓
Wulong District is under the jurisdiction of Chongqing Municipality
It is located in the southeast of Chongqing
Longitude 107°14'~108°05' E
29°02'~29°40' N
It is located in the southeast of Chongqing in the lower reaches of the Wujiang River
Wuling Mountain and Da Lou Mountain Canyon Area
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About The Fairy Mountain ❓
Chongqing Wulong Fairy Mountain
It is a national 5A level scenic spot
National Forest Park
It is located in the Wuling Mountains in eastern Chongqing
The Wu River winds around the foot of its mountain
The altitude is 2033 meters
It has 330,000 acres of forest
Natural grassland 100,000 acres
Known as "the first Makihara in the southern country" and "Switzerland of the East"
Its beautiful forest and grassland scenery
Unique in Chongqing
Escape the heat in summer and enjoy snow in winter
The list of well-known views of Fairy Mountain is innumerable
But
Its geological knowledge
Do you know
Today, I will come to look for bayu
Lead everyone together from a geological point of view
Take a look at The Fairy Mountain
See the charm of geoscience and the untold scenery of Fairy Mountain
| karst hills |
Have you noticed that the summit of Fairy Mountain is relatively flat, and a group of endless hills are neatly arranged on the same level, such a landform is officially a legacy of geological evolution history thousands of years ago. At the summit of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River at an altitude of about 2,000 meters, there is a first-class level formed about 2500 years ago, at that time, there was roughly a quasi-plain in this location, with the uplift of the earth's crust, the river cut, they gradually became today's mountaintops, and finally under the dissolution of surface water, today's karst hills were formed.
A gentle terrace is formed on the slope of the remnant hill, which is weathered along the level and accumulated, and is developed as agricultural land and housing settlement. It has been said that the mountains have no edges, and the heavens and the earth are united, but they dare to be with the king. And here, the "fairy" is still there, the hills are still there, can you come?
| Fairy Stone |
Directly south of the Fun Loto Outdoor Training Camp in the Fairy Mountain Scenic Area, there is a beautiful scenic spot, two stones one high and one low, one large and one small, such as two people looking at here, or waiting for the return of the family, here is called the Fairy Stone.
There is also a beautiful story about the fairy stone: at the foot of the fairy mountain lives a family surnamed Chen, and the three mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of the family are dependent on each other, coinciding with the drought, and the daughter-in-law goes up to the mountain to collect firewood for rice without harvest.
One day, the daughter-in-law went up to the mountain to collect firewood, hungry and dizzy, met a woman, the fairy gave her a peach, the daughter-in-law was afraid that the mother-in-law and sister-in-law were hungry at home, and took the peach home and divided it into two points for the mother-in-law. I didn't think it was a peach. On the second day, the mother-in-law was enlightened, and the filial piety of the daughter-in-law touched the fairy, and the fairy let her eat the peach core and become a fairy.
Beautiful myths and stories are a kind of expectation of a better life. Perhaps in the past, myths were a kind of spiritual sustenance for people, but now we look back and taste, after being carved by history, we still have a different flavor.
The Fairy Stone is surrounded by mountains and lush vegetation. The vegetation in the lower part of the stone pillar is developed, and the roots are not visible; the top is weathered, the upper part is covered with vegetation, and between the green water and green mountains, it is also cloaked in the mysterious cloak of nature.
| explore the secrets of ancient life
In the southeast direction of the Fun Lotto Outdoor Training Camp in the Fairy Mountain Scenic Area, we found some fossils from ancient times here. Friends who are familiar with our search for Bayu should have an understanding through the previous plates, Chongqing, a long time ago, was a vast ocean, and now, we have found a lot of traces of "marine life" here.
【Sea Lily】
Sea lily is a kind of echinoderm, living in the sea, with multiple brachiopods, the body is flower-like, the surface has a calcareous shell, after geological action to form fossils, has high scientific research value and ornamental value.
【Coral】
Corals are mostly exoskeletons and are predominantly calcium-based. According to the characteristics of the soft body, such as tentacles, the number and arrangement of the diaphragm, hard skeleton characteristics, etc., it can generally be divided into transverse coral suborder, tetragonal coral suborder, hexatustomy coral suborder and eight-shot coral suborder, of which the tetragonal coral suborder and transverse coral suborder have more fossils, and the stratigraphic significance is greater.
【Ammonite】
Ammonite belongs to the cephalopods and shells, and cephalopods are the most well-developed and highest class of mollusk phylum. Ammonites flourished from the Late Paleozoic to Mesozoic, especially in the Mesozoic Era, which became the era of ammonites.
【Brachiopods】
Brachiopods are marine benthic animals, living in groups of monomers (no groups), specific cavities, no sections and symmetrical sides, about 700 species, only more than 300 species, there are polygenesis phenomenon. Brachiopods are all marine, living mainly in shallow sea environments in the Paleozoic to Mesozoic Era, while in modern times only semi-deep to deep sea environments are distributed. Most are attached to the seafloor with fleshy stems, secondary cements, or shell spines.
| karst depressions |
Careful protection ensures the original appearance of this place. The surrounding vegetation is dense and the biodiversity is well maintained.
Between the high mountains, there is such a depression, and the main source of water supply for the shoal is atmospheric precipitation, which is a small ecology in itself, and the windblown grass is also roughly described here.
A clear pond, a grassland, three or five cattle and sheep, a hut, so that a life of leisure, this is almost everyone's dream, if not, in the fairy mountain for a few days, you can also a little to satisfy their wishes.
Seeing traces of humans between green mountains and waters seems to bring some lively little playfulness to the seriousness of nature. Don't think that only "Happy Valley" is a child's paradise, and you can still find the most simple fun in the depths of the mountains.
Carefully exploring the surrounding landform, we were surprised to find that this is an occlusive and dissolution depression, and there are basic conditions for the formation of sinkholes, but why has not a sinkhole formed?
Originally, this was because the depression here was a yiyi plane in the early days, and a closed depression was formed by erosion in the later period, that is, karst erosion, rather than the "karst collapse effect" that formed the sinkhole, so the sinkhole could not be formed.
Visit the Fairy Mountain, while enjoying the beautiful scenery, while learning geological knowledge, edutainment without delay, by the way alpine summer, green forest heat dissipation, good and unhappy.
The photo/video was collected by tandem research in the field
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Chuandongnan team 208 team Nanjiang team geological research institute