Ghost City, Xinjiang: The days of making the city famous (Photos)

Urho Ghost City, also known as the Windy City, located in the northwest edge of Junggar Basin, Urho jackwood River mine, 100 km southwest from Karamay there a unique landscape of wind erosion, oddly shaped, the locals said the Mongols this city as "Sulu wood Haq", Kazakhs as "sand by tanks of Anglesey", meaning Ghost City.

In fact, here is a typical landform region, "Ya" is the Uighur "steep hills" in Italy, landform near Lop Nur in the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang Jadin named after the region's most typical, in arid, the formation of a strong wind conditions wind erosion landforms.

According to research, dating back over one hundred million years ago in the Cretaceous, there was a rippling blue waves, moist freshwater lake surrounded by lush plants, marshes contiguous, verdant shrubs, trees Bitian, a variety of well-being of wildlife home later, with the long-term slow subsidence of the crust, the lake sediments by sandstone, shale formations composed of muddy sand.

After two major Indo-China and Yanshan crustal movement, the rise in the crust, the lake gradually dried up, there became a vast expanse of the Gobi platform. Mesa into the Junggar Basin, northwest face of the old outlet, so this piece of desert mesa year-round by five, six more than the invasion of the wind direction,Combined with unique continental climate rain, snowmelt flood clean up type, the course of time, forming numerous ravines, Taiwan to accelerate the natural carving.

As the composition of the different nature of the platform of rock, some hard, some soft, some dense, some sparse, wind and rain erosion of the ability of different, resulting in differences in baptism, so that odd-shaped platform to become like the strange, strange things. Over time , creating a magical and magnificent Ghost City today.

Photo Source: Sina blog Kui child photography