Hashiketen Geological Park ( Chinese 克什克 腾 世界 地质 公园 ) is a geopark located in the Chinese Autonomous Region of Inner Mongolia south of Chifeng . The total area of the park is 1,750 square meters. km The park is divided into 8 regions according to geological structure and relief : volcanic , glacial , desert .
Park Features
The geological park is located at the junction of the southern foot of the Daxinganling Mountains and the foot of the Yanshan Mountains. The main feature of the park is “ice stupas”, a stone forest of granite and geological formations that formed in the Quaternary (about 1.75 million years ago). Round pits in the rock are the largest and rarest in scale complex of ancient “ice stupas”. Two square kilometers contain more than 300 potholes ranging in size from 50 cm to several meters, with shapes resembling pots, pitchers, spoons, buckets and pools.
On the territory of the park there are thermal springs , deserts , steppes , lakes , rivers , mountains and gorges , as well as a number of minerals. In addition, many traces of the implementation of human activity in prehistoric times have been preserved here.
On December 10, 2001, the Ministry of Land and Natural Resources of China attached importance to this area - a geopark , and on February 11, 2005, UNESCO recognized Hashiketen as a world geopark [1] .