The Stone Forest Is Not One Shape: Karst at Different Scales
The Stone Forest’s drama comes from variation: limestone breaks into towers, corridors and clustered forms rather than a repeated silhouette.
Shilin Karst
Shilin’s limestone landscape contains more than one stone form. Geological and heritage descriptions place individual pillars and surfaces within a wider karst history.
Shilin Karst
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Limestone formations at Shilin, Yunnan.CEphoto, Uwe Aranas · 2012-03-28 · CC BY-SA 3.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized without cropping or upscaling; converted to WebP.