In fact, there is a rift valley wonder in Anhui Province, the West Anhui Rift Valley, which is located in Zhangdian Town, jin an district, Lu 'an City. The West Anhui Rift is located in Dabie Mountain, which is a piedmont basin rift with a single exposed stratum.
It belongs to Fenghuangtai Formation in the late Middle Jurassic. About 654.38+0.6 billion years ago, the North Sun tectonic belt was uplifted, developed and formed under the control of a series of faults. In addition, the long-term erosion and undercutting of flowing water along the fault structure have formed the wonders of the rift valley that we see now. It is also the closest national geological park to Hefei, the capital of Anhui Province, and a rare mountain fissure spectacle in China.
The West Anhui Rift Valley is a geological wonder integrating canyon landform and cave landform. Deep valleys and steep slopes are rare in Dabie Mountains.
The West Anhui Rift Valley is located in the majestic Dabie Mountains, just like the immortal's power split it in two, forming a narrow V-shaped Rift Valley face to face. The Great Rift Valley in East Africa is about 1500 meters long, tens of meters wide and more than ten meters high, with steep valleys, mostly around 80 degrees. The steepest place stands upright everywhere, and the valley is tens of meters deep and hundreds of meters high. It is a steep V-shaped valley.
Three of them are soul-stirring, one is more difficult than the other, and there is a tendency that "one person can keep it, and ten thousand people can't force it", which can be called "China's version of the Great Rift Valley in East Africa".
The cave topography of the rift valley in western Anhui is also worth exploring. In this1500m-long canyon, there are more than 1000 caves.
On the west side of the rift valley, the cave landform formed by the selective dissolution of running water along the weak part of the rock structure and then weathering has formed large and small caves on the rock walls on both sides of the rift valley, in which the largest cave can accommodate 1000 people and the smallest cave can only accommodate one adult.
When you are in the West Anhui Rift Valley, every landscape here is a masterpiece of nature. The antenna, platform, three gates, Jubaoge, Xiongqi Rock and other scenic spots are amazing, which will make every visitor deeply appreciate the wonders of nature and the infinite charm of geological action.
But why don't you know much about the West Anhui Rift Valley, which is called the "China version of the East African Rift Valley", and there are so few tourists?
In fact, the most fundamental reason is that there is no good development and publicity. Dabie Mountain has many landforms, spanning three provinces of Hubei, Henan and Anhui, among which there are many scenic spots such as Tianzhu Mountain and Tiantangzhai. In addition, most of the characteristic landscapes of Dabie Mountain are in Anhui Province. Therefore, the West Anhui Rift Valley is not well developed and publicized, and not many people know it, so there are few tourists.