Geological Overview of Shennongjia
Updated：2022-09-20 Source：Shennongjia National Park
Shennongjia is located in the northwestern border of Hubei Province, the northern margin of the Yangtze Plate, and the eastern section of the Qinling-Dabie orogenic belt, where the Yangtze Platform and the Sino-Korea Platform collide and merge. The mountains extend in an east-west direction. The overall terrain is high in the southwest and low in the northeast. Deep valleys, criss-cross ravines and gullies, multiple ranges and majestic mountains are distributed here. There are 187 large and small mountain peaks, most of which are over 1,500m above sea level, including 32 peaks over 2,500m and 6 peaks over 3,000m. The highest peak in the area - Shennong Peak, with an altitude of 3,106.2m, is known as "the highest peak in central China". The lowest point in the area, Shizhuhe, is only 398m above sea level. Thus, the area has an average altitude of 1,800m and a relative height difference of more than 2,700m.
Shennongjia records the history of the earth's crust changes over the past 1.6 billion years and preserves very complete Mesoproterozoic strata - Shennongjia Group. There are dolerite dikes representing the breakup event of the Rodinia supercontinent; witness of the early Neoproterozoic glacial event - tillite of the Nantuo Formation; and widely distributed stromatolites. Six peaks with an altitude of more than 3,000m here integrate to form the "Roof of Central China", which is the watershed between the Yangtze River and the Hanjiang River in Hubei. Nearly 200 geological landscapes such as mountain landforms, tectonic landforms, fluvial landforms, karst landforms and glacial landforms in the area constitute a rare natural geological museum in the world. The unique Late Precambrian strata, typical fault-dome structure, Quaternary glacial relics, etc., have extremely high conservation value, scientific value and international stratigraphic correlation significance.
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