Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Department of

 

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

3-1999

Citation

Journal of Chinese Geography (March 1999) 9(1): 25-34

Article ID: 0218-1444(1999)01-0025-10

Journal of Chinese Geography became Journal of Geographical Sciences in 2001

Comments

Copyright 1999, Springer. Used by permission.

Abstract

Huangshan (Yellow Mountain) is located in southern part of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. The highest Lotus Flower peak is 1,864 m above sea level. Formative ages of the Huangshan and its granite, process of mountain geomorphic evolution from the Eocene to Quaternary, environmental changes of Quaternary, formative origin of beautiful peaks and fascinating rocks were studied and the questionable “Pleistocene glaciation” was also discussed in this paper.

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