posaanisam Posted September 2, 2013 Report Posted September 2, 2013 [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif] [b]This may look like an exotic alien landscape, or else a page from a Dr. Seuss book, but these striped mountains really exist! They’re part of the Zhangye Danxia Geological Park in Gansu Province, China. The vivid rainbow striations are the result red sandstone and various mineral deposits that formed in layers over millions of years, and then were buckled by the same tectonic plates that helped create the Himalayan mountains.[/b][/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif] [b]The mountains are part of the Zhangye Danxia Landform Geological Park in China. Layers of different colored sandstone and minerals were pressed together over 24 million years and then buckled up by tectonic plates, according to the Telegraph.[/b][/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif] [b]These whimsical, seemingly extraterrestrial mountains exist only in China, and they have fast become a popular tourist attraction.[/b][/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif] [img]http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1274348/thumbs/o-RAINBOW-MOUNTAINS-900.jpg?1[/img][/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif] [img]http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1274350/thumbs/o-RAINBOW-MOUNTAINS-900.jpg?2[/img][/font][/color]
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