Saturday 14 December 2013

Purnululu National Park, Australia (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1094

The 239,723 ha Purnululu National Park is located in the State of Western Australia. It contains the deeply dissected Bungle Bungle Range composed of Devonian-age quartz sandstone eroded over a period of 20 million years into a series of beehive-shaped towers or cones, whose steeply sloping surfaces are distinctly marked by regular horizontal bands of dark-grey cyanobacterial crust (single-celled photosynthetic organisms). These outstanding examples of cone karst owe their existence and uniqueness to several interacting geological, biological, erosional and climatic phenomena.

Sender: helent, Sent on: 29 Nov, 2013, Received on: 9 Dec, 2013, Travel time: 12 days

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