The Stone Forest (China)

 

The Shilin (Chinese for stone forest) is an impressive example of karst topography. Its rocks are made of limestone and are formed by water percolating the ground's surface and eroding away everything but the pillars. It's known since the Ming Dynasty as the 'First Wonder of the World.

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Enchanted Well - Chapada Diamantina National Park (Brazil)

Enchanted Well - Chapada Diamantina National Park (Brazil)

Poco Encantado, or Enchanted Well, is located in the Chapada Diamantina National Park inBahia state, approximately 400 kilometres inland from Salvador, the capital city of Bahia.This giant sunken pool is 120 feet deep and the water is so transparent the ancient rocksand tree trunks are visible on the bottom. When the sun is just right, light comes through acrevice and creates a blue reflection on the water. Access to this pond is highly controlledfor environmental protection of its rare and delicate ecosystem.

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Geological Wonders - The Valley of the Moon (Argentina)

Geological Wonders - The Valley of the Moon (Argentina)

Ischigualasto, meaning "the place WHERE you put the moon" is a remote valley in Argentina.It is studded with geological Formations left by Wind Erosion, amazing standing stones andBoulders That are so rounded They look like enormous Marbles. The Valley's once-fertileground is now arid and contains so many plant and animal Fossils That paleontologists comefrom all over the world to study Them.

Erosion over the millennia unearths the Fossils as well as other geological Formations Such as a host of Almost spherical concretions. The wind, inexorable and patient, has pounded the local bedrock for an age. Revealed, The Boulders That mudstone - in its original wet form, helped to form look as if giants have been playing Marbles.
 

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