Shitanglin

The scenery of Shitanglin is not the landscape, but the real remains of volcanic eruption. Within the scope of eyesight and footprints, there are all intricate and rugged lava agglomerates, which can be called spectacular. Unlike the usual "Stonehenge", which wins by its scattered height and different shapes, Shitanglin's Lava clots scatter without regularity and shape, but this does not make them pale. Here, as if there is nothing else, the earth is shaped by volcanoes. When you stand alone on this ancient and modern magical land, it's hard to tell whether this is a rooting or a search. Among the ruins, in a world without walls and railings, you can climb up to it, step on it, touch it with your hands, smell it with your nose, or even lean down to your side and stick your ears on it. Maybe you can really hear the sound of hundreds of thousands of years ago, and walk down the tunnel of time and space, slowly beating your eardrum. Even if what you hear is quiet, I believe that in such a real volcanic remains, such a different strange scene, your heart will not be calm. Because this extraordinary landscape formed when there was no civilization, so that ancient times are no longer far away. It must be how much piety has been cultivated before we can look back at this moment with you in the vicissitudes of life. Therefore, don't be surprised why you always want to linger in this ugly "stone formation". It's not surprising, because there is a kind of call deeply buried in your heart and my heart. After sleeping for hundreds of thousands of years, you can transcend life and death, race and humanity, wake up and light up your heart. Traveler tips: in Shitanglin, people will feel very deep, very quiet, and even very drunk. People can't help but have a curiosity and impulse to further explore. But in the process of walking and climbing, please be careful, volcanic remains are in the original state, to avoid scratches, sprains or shoes are stuck, be sure to ensure safety before action.

Shitanglin

Shitanglin, located in the east of Tianchi in the Aershan mountain, 84 kilometers away from the city, is one of the wonders of the Great Xing'an Mountains. It is one of the largest and most complete lava landscapes in the world. It is also a class a protected area of the United Nations.

Shitanglin is a geological relic of Quaternary volcanic eruption. It is the largest recent dead volcano basalt landform in Asia. Its geological structure, soil, vegetation and biota are all kept in the original state, with biodiversity. It reproduces the whole process of succession from lower plants to higher plants, and has high scientific research and protection value.

brief introduction

As a geological relic of Quaternary volcanic eruption, it is the largest recent dead volcano basalt landform in Asia. Its geological structure, soil, vegetation and biota all maintain their original state and are biologically diverse. It reproduces the whole process of succession from lower plants to higher plants and has high scientific research and protection value. Shitanglin, 20 kilometers long and 10 kilometers wide, was formed by magma flowing after volcanic eruption. Exposed volcanic rocks. The formation of different sizes, rugged landforms, jagged rocks, different attitudes. There is no soil in the pond, but the larch is tall and straight, and the alpine cypress is several feet long; the Yansong (creeping pine) is green; the jinxingmei and yinxingmei are blooming. In the Shitang forest, the stone forest is interdependent, the flowers and plants are in harmony, and the clear flow appears and disappears from time to time, which is amazing.

After thousands of years of weathering and water erosion, Shitanglin has formed a unique natural landscape, like a turbulent lava ocean, with magical landscapes such as fanhuashi, lava cave, lava mound, jet cone, lava turtle back and underground river. Larix gmelinii is luxuriant in Xing'an, cypress is everywhere, Pinus sylvestris is evergreen all the year round, golden plum and silver plum are everywhere.

position

Shitanglin is located in the east of Tianshan lake, 84 kilometers away from wenquanxue street, which is one of the wonders of Daxinganling. Shitanglin is 20 km long and 10 km wide. It is a geological relic formed by magma flowing after several volcanic eruptions in the Quaternary period. It has magical landscapes such as fanhuashi, lava ridge, lava rope, jet butterfly, lava hill, jet cone, lava Valley, underground river, etc., which can be called "volcanic geological museum". The soil in Shitang is barren, but there are tall and straight Larix gmelinii, Sabina chinensis and Pinus thunbergii (creeping pine) growing in the crevices of stone. They are green and dripping, and the plum blossom of Jinxing and Yinxing is unremitting, as well as large areas of lower plant moss. In Shitang forest, stone and forest depend on each other, flowers and grass melt together, clear stone stream and quiet pool appear and disappear, and jumping stone rabbit chirps and chirps, forming a magnificent, lively and ingenious natural picture. Many Chinese and foreign tourists come here and are shocked by the ingenious combination of stone and forest. They all praise it as a world wonder "stone pond forest".

Scenery

Walking into Shitanglin is like walking into a natural and complete Museum of volcanic geology. There are many geological relics formed by volcanic eruptions in history. The lava from volcanic eruptions covers the ground, forming vast lava mats and lava quilts. The lava above the ground often forms platforms. The vast lava platform in the Aershan area covers an area of 1000 square kilometers. The most spectacular is the formation of Shitang landform with a length of 20 kilometers and a width of 10 kilometers in the daheigou area, which is called "daheigou basalt", and the lithology is alkaline basalt and olivine basalt.

Shitang is like a turbulent lava ocean, forming a variety of lava forms, including Fanhua stone, lava ridge, lava rope, lava dish, lava cave, lava hill, jet cone, lava Valley, underground river and other magical landscapes. According to geologists, this is the only large-scale, well-developed and well preserved lava turtle structure in China.

In addition, there are hundreds of lava mounds, which is the only basalt landform that can be seen here in China at present. Most of these lava mounds are steamed bread shaped, 5-7m in diameter and 2-4m in height. There are ventilation channels in the middle, so that the top and side of the lava mound often split, forming fissure holes.

Deep source inclusions, such as lherzolite, peridotite and garnet, were also found in the basalts, which are of great scientific value to the tectonic environment of the deep crust. In the stone pond where there is no accumulation of soil, there are tall and straight larch, large cypress, Yansong, jinxingmei, yinxingmei and other plants. In the stone pond forest, jagged rocks and trees depend on each other, flowers and plants blend with each other, clear stone streams and quiet pools sometimes appear and disappear, and jumping stone rabbits sometimes emit clear and crisp calls, forming a magnificent, lively and ingenious landscape Stone Forest painting scroll.

Lava landscape in Shitanglin

Stone pond forest - this 20 km long, 10 km wide, 200 square km area, in the deep mountains and dense forests, boulders rolling, like a undulating exposed dark brown basalt rock pond. It can be imagined that at the moment when the volcano erupted about 1.66 million years ago in the Quaternary period, what a spectacular scene it was - the red and hot sea of magma was surging, its magma head was unstoppable, and it was flowing and burning here with the momentum of withering and decaying. Everywhere magma goes, everything is burned to ashes. In the process of flowing and burning, magma is constantly affected by the surface, such as groundwater, air, rivers, and so on. Under the influence of these conditions, magma gradually cools and solidifies, forming a sea of strange rocks, or twisted into ropes, or turned into flowers, or cracked into blocks. After 1.66 million years of weathering, disintegration and fragmentation, one stone pond forest after another is created Unique natural wonders. Every place and stone here has a storytelling head, which has been given a proper name. It tells and narrates its history for the donkey friends who come here. Such as Fanhua stone, jet cone, lava dish, lava cave, lava hill, lava Valley, lava rope, lava ridge, underground river, turtle shaped lava wait:

From a distance, the volcanic rocks are like a rough sea of rocks. From a close view, they look like the rocks with flowers turning;

When the magma erupts, it is accompanied by the hot water vapor on the surface, and the cone-shaped structure, the jet cone, is stacked layer upon layer at the vent;

When the magma erupted, it was accompanied by the hot water vapor on the surface, and there were butterfly like and disk-shaped trumpet like objects at the vent;

In the process of magma flowing on the surface, the surface has been condensed, while the bottom is still flowing, and there is no new magma supplement, forming a tunnel like cave lava cave;

In the process of surface flow of magma, the hot gas on the surface makes the surface of magma uplift, and forms a kind of lava structure lava mound, also known as "huahuamantou". There are more than 200 lava mounds in Shitanglin area;

Because of the collapse of the magma passage or a large amount of hot gas at the bottom of the magma, the geological structure that shrinks after cooling and leads to the collapse is mostly in the form of round or strip-shaped lava Valley (lava pit, lava basin);

In the process of flowing, the crust magma surface is pushed, twisted and curled to form a rope like geological structure rope like lava;

The geological structure of the long strip ridge formed by the cooling of magma flowing along the surface is lava ridge, which is several kilometers or tens of kilometers long and tens to hundreds of meters wide;

Halaha river flows through the first section of Shitanglin and sinks into the underground to form an underground river;

In the process of magma flowing on the surface, cracks in different directions were formed due to the cooling and contraction of the crust, and in the later stage, there were multi-stage magma flows filling along the fissure trough,

Chinese PinYin : Shi Tang Lin