Luoping

Luoping’s Triassic fossil record preserves evidence of an ancient sea. Today’s karst peaks and waterways belong to a later landscape with a different geological history.

Luoping

Luoping: From a Triassic Sea to Karst Peaks

In Luoping, a fossil assemblage records marine life about 244 million years ago; the county’s present-day karst belongs to a much later landscape.

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Luoping landscapes; the waterfall photograph is identified as Jiulong Waterfalls.Fanghong · 2013-02-23 13:39:37 · CC BY-SA 3.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized without cropping or upscaling; converted to WebP.