Urho Ghost City, also known as the Windy City. Located in the Junggar Basin, northwest edge of the jackwood River Urho mine, southwest of the city 100 km away from Karamay. There is a unique erosion landforms, oddly shaped, local Mongols this city known as" Sulu wood Haq," Kazakh known as the" Sand Tank by Anglesey" , meaning Ghost City.
Ghost City fact Here is a typical landform region," Ya" is the Uighur" steep hills," meaning, landform near Lop Nur in Xinjiang's Tarim Basin Jadin named after the region's most typical, in the dry, windy a wind environment, the formation of landforms.
Ghost City Windy City +, also known as Urho | start | According to research, dating back over one hundred million years ago in the Cretaceous, there is a rippling blue waves, moist freshwater lake surrounded by lush plants , swamps contiguous, verdant shrubs, trees Bitian, is home to a variety of well-being of wildlife. Later, with the long-term slow crustal subsidence, lake sediments from sandstone, shale formations composed of muddy sand.
this piece of desert mesa year-round by five, six or more directional wind invasion through two major Indo-China and Yanshan after crustal movement , rising crust, the lake gradually dried up, there became a vast expanse of the Gobi platform. Platform 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, coupled with continental climate specific to heavy rain, snowmelt-type flood clean up, course of time, forming a numerous ravines, Taiwan to speed up the natural carving.
peacock welcome platform as the composition of the rocks of a different nature, some hard, some soft, some dense, some sparse, wind and rain erosion of the ability of different, resulting in differences in baptism, the platform becomes like strange odd-shaped, mix . Over time, creating a magical and magnificent Ghost City today.
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