Quaternary glacial remains

The unique unique landscape of Taibai Mountain is Quaternary glacial relics. You can see glacial stone sea without climbing high mountains.

Quaternary glacial remains

Quaternary glacial remains are located in Xinjing Township, 25 kilometers south of Jingpeng Town, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia. Daqingshan, the main peak, is more than 1500 meters above sea level, with beautiful peaks and lush forests. At the top of the mountain is the unique geological wonder in the world - the glacial Stone Forest glacial mortar group. There are more than 200 large and small glacial mortar groups. The quantity and scale of the ice stone forest in this area are amazing.

Related scientific investigation

A team led by Professor Han Tonglin, a Chinese expert on Quaternary glaciers, recently discovered the largest Quaternary glacial stone river in China, wanmadu glacial stone river, at the foot of Tianmu Mountain in Xinchang County, Zhejiang Province.

Through on-site investigation, Han Tonglin and other glacier research experts found a large number of Quaternary ice cap glacial relics, such as glacial boulders and moraines, in the 3 km long wanmadu River Valley. According to the numerous glacial molars distributed on the giant glacial boulders, it is further confirmed that the large-scale Stonehenge in the river valley is a Quaternary glacier about 2 million to 3 million years ago The glacial stone river remains formed by glacial drift deposits in the early Pleistocene. Professor Han Tonglin, a researcher at the Institute of geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, believes that the large-scale glacial River discovered in the wanmadu Valley in Xinchang has left a lot of important information about the Quaternary glacial period, which is of great scientific significance for the study of global environmental evolution and the prediction of future climate change trends.

quaternary glaciation

The last great glacial period in the history of the earth. The occurrence of glaciers is a huge ice body moving along the ground in polar or alpine regions. A large amount of snow falling above the snow line is formed under gravity and great pressure, and the glacier gets a lot of ice supply from the source. However, the ice melts very slowly, and the glacier itself grows wide and deep. When it flows down to the high temperature, the ice supply is less, and the glacier becomes smaller and smaller, until the amount of ice melting and the amount of upstream supply offset each other. In general, glaciers are tongue-shaped, and the surface of glaciers is often uneven. In some places, there are deep cracks, namely crevices. Glaciers can be divided into continental glaciers and mountain glaciers. During the Quaternary, glaciers in the Alps of Europe expanded at least five times. In China, according to Li Siguang's research, there are four sub glacial periods: Poyang, Dagu, Lushan and Dali. The total area covered by modern glaciers is about 16.3 million square kilometers, accounting for 11% of the total land area of the earth. China's modern glaciers are mainly distributed in some peak areas of the Himalayas (North Slope), Kunlun Mountains, Tianshan Mountains, Qilian Mountains and Hengduan Mountains, with a total area of 57069 square kilometers.

Glacial period

Glacial age, ice age, glacial period refers to the period when the earth's climate is extremely cold and the vast area of high latitude is covered by continental glaciers. The most recent glacial period is the Pleistocene. According to the results of studies in Europe and North America, there are six glacial periods and five interglacial periods. In Japan, two glacial periods were found according to the analysis of the iceberg (Kar) topography. The most significant glacial period was in the Carboniferous Permian, where glacial remains remained in Gondwana. In addition to the above two glacial periods, Precambrian, Mesozoic and tertiary glacial remains are also found in Europe and America, but they are not very significant.

Since the birth of the earth, the climate has been changing. During the geological age, the climate of the earth alternated between warm and cold. Among the extremely long cycle climates over hundreds of thousands of years, there are large glacier climate cycle and glacial age climate cycle.

Before the Sinian period, about 600 million years ago, we didn't know the climate of the earth. From the Sinian period of Paleozoic 600 million years ago to the Quaternary period of Cenozoic 10000 years ago, the climate on the earth has experienced three major glacial climates. The first is Sinian glacial age, about 600 million years ago; the second is Carboniferous Permian Glacial Age, about 200-300 million years ago; the third is Cenozoic Quaternary glacial age, about 2 million years ago. The time scale of these three glacial climates is about 10 million to 100 million years.

In the climate of the great glacial period of the Quaternary, we have known that the climate was still cold and warm alternately. During this period, the number of glaciers advancing and retreating around the world is not consistent, but most scholars agree that there are four glacial ages.

Address: Taibai County, Baoji City, Shaanxi Province

Longitude: 107.76733875275

Latitude: 33.952580401076

Tour time: 1-2 hours

Traffic information: the road from xiaowengong to dawengong will pass through glacial relics

Ticket information: included in the ticket of Taibai Mountain National Forest Park

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