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Mountain Evolution And Environmental Changes Of Huangshan (Yellow Mountain), China, Pei-Hua Huang, Robert F. Diffendal Jr., Min-Qing Yang, Patricia E. Helland
Mountain Evolution And Environmental Changes Of Huangshan (Yellow Mountain), China, Pei-Hua Huang, Robert F. Diffendal Jr., Min-Qing Yang, Patricia E. Helland
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Faculty Publications
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.