Luota Karst Platform
Figure 5-5 Luota Karst Platform
Luota Karst Platform is a karst platform that has broken up completely. Overall, it is an isolated, wide and gentle synclinal platform, with an area of about 82km2, an altitude of 1,000-1,437m, belonging to part of the residual ancient planation surface (Figure 5-5). The platform stretches in a northeast direction. Its southwestern section is slightly tilted northward, while its northeastern section slants. The shaft is composed of carbonate rocks in Triassic and Permian systems with a thickness of 800-900m. The wings are aquicludes made up of sandstones and shales in the Devonian and Silurian systems, with a thickness of over 2,000m. The synclinal platform consists of various landforms, including peak cluster depression, stone tooth-stone forest, swallet-blind valley, karst window-cave, canyon-rock pillar, river-waterfall. Therefore, it is recognized as one of the “typical representatives of South China Karst Platform”.
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