Nanling Mountains
Nanling Mountains | |
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Highest point | |
Peak | Kitten Mountain |
Elevation | 2,142 m (7,028 ft) |
Coordinates | 25°10′N 112°20′E / 25.167°N 112.333°E |
Dimensions | |
Length | 600 km (370 mi) E/W |
Width | 200 km (120 mi) N/E |
Geography | |
Location | Guangxi, Guangdong and Hunan |
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Literal meaning | Southern Ridges | ||||||||||||
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The Nanling (Chinese:
There are trough basins in the Nanling; most of the western basins in Nanling Mountains are composed of limestone, where karst regions are located. Most of the eastern basins are made up of red sandstone, where danxia landform areas are found.
The Nanling are boundaries between the four provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan and Jiangxi, and also the cultural boundaries. To the south of the mountains are Lingnan culture areas.[1]
The Nanling is a corridor where Chinese ethnic groups migrate and also the land of national amalgamation. In the Nanling, there form trough corridors, tectonic fault basins or watersheds, where are relatively low and not difficult to climb, between the natural gorge channels and the river systems in the north and south of the Nanling are natural channels, people-to-people exchanges are easy. Since the Qin dynasty, from the Central Plains into Lingnan (the south of the Nanling) there have been five ancient roads, which are YuechengLing Road(
The mountains forming the ranges are generally of moderate altitude, the highest point being the summit of Kitten Mountain at 2,142 meters (7,028 ft).
The Nanling mountains are a regional biodiversity hot spot for endemic species of plants, birds and amphibians.[3][4]
Ranges
[edit]The five mountain ranges that make up the Nanling are the:
- Yuecheng Mountains (
越 城 岭) - Dupang Mountains (
都 龐嶺) - Mengzhu Mountains (
萌 渚 嶺 ) - Qitian Mountains (
騎 田 嶺 ) - Dayu Mountains (
大 庾嶺)
The Nanling Mountains separate Central China from South China. Areas south of the ranges are tropical in climate, permitting two crops of white rice to be grown each year.
Ion adsorption clays are mined by open-pit methods in the Nanling region, and form a major source of rare earth elements in the world.[5]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b according to the Ecological Protection and Construction Planning on Forest and Biodiversity Ecological Functional Areas in Nanling Mountainous Area (
南 岭山地 森林 及生物 多 样性生 态功能 区 生 态保护与建 设规划) (December 2013, by the SFA): wenku.baidu, also see 3y.uu456.com[permanent dead link] - ^ tsingming.com[permanent dead link], mzzjw.com[permanent dead link] or aqmzzj.gov.cn[permanent dead link]
- ^ Xu, Haigen; Cao, Mingchang; Wu, Yi; Cai, Lei; Cao, Yun; Wu, Jun; Lei, Juncheng; Le, Zhifang; Ding, Hui; Cui, Peng (February 2016). "Disentangling the determinants of species richness of vascular plants and mammals from national to regional scales". Scientific Reports. 6 (1): 21988. doi:10.1038/srep21988. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 4763236. PMID 26902418.
- ^ Li, Binbin V.; Pimm, Stuart L. (April 2016). "China's endemic vertebrates sheltering under the protective umbrella of the giant panda: China's Protected Areas and Biodiversity". Conservation Biology. 30 (2): 329–339. doi:10.1111/cobi.12618. S2CID 34750531.
- ^ Kanazawa, Yasuo; Kamitani, Masaharu (2006). "Rare earth minerals and resources in the world". Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 408–412: 1339–1343. doi:10.1016/j.jallcom.2005.04.033.