Grand Mt Songshan 60*70cm
Spring of Peak Junji 70*70cm
Spring of Mt Songshan 70*45cm
Towering Southern Mt Songshan 45*70cm
Nantianmen 45*70cm
Remote Mountains in Spring Rain 70*45cm
Artgeological Painting Show of Songshan World Geopark by Kang Yu-yi
Grand Mt Songshan 60*70cm |
Spring of Peak Junji 70*70cm |
Spring of Mt Songshan 70*45cm |
Towering Southern Mt Songshan 45*70cm |
Nantianmen 45*70cm |
Remote Mountains in Spring Rain 70*45cm |
 Red Flowers of Mt Songshan 45*70cm |
 Grand Mt Shaoshi 70*45cm |
 Ancient Surge 70*45cm |
 Mt Songshan under Sky 45*70cm |
 Gully of Mt Songshan 70*45cm |
 Amid Mt Taishi 70*45cm |
 Grand Mt Songshan 70*45cm |
 2.5 Billion-year Old Floor of Mt Songshan 45*70cm |
 A Canyon of Mt Songshan 45*70cm |
 Sanhuangzhai after Rain 45*70cm |
 Cloud Rising in Mt Songshan 70*70cm |
 Luya Fall 70*70cm |
 Mt Yusai in Mist 45*70cm |
 Nimble Rock Greeting Spring 45*70cm |
 Mount Songsan under Sky 70*70cm |
 Mt Songshan after Snow 70*70cm |
 Green Spring Mountains 70*70cm |
 Peaks of Mt Shaoshi 70*70cm |
 Mt Songshan amid Clouds 70*70cm |
 Erecting Rocky Peaks 70*70cm |
 Metamorphic Basal Conglomerate of Mt Songshan 45*70cm |
 Hanjiangjun Cypress 70*70cm |
 Cloud of Mt Laojun 70*70cm |
 Grandly Emerges 45*70cm |
Songshan Geopark covering 450km2 is situated in Henan Province, China. Its main types of geological heritages are geological (structural) sections, and the main landscapes include peculiar erosional structures and limestone karst landscapes.
Songshan Mountain is geotectonically located in the southern part of the North China ancient land. Within it successive and complete Archean (3,500Ma ago), Proterozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic stratigraphic sections are exposed with clear stratigraphic sequence and typical structural features, and are called “Five Eras Gathering” by the geological circles. In fact, here is a complete “rock” book recording the evolution history of the Earth.
Because the mountains and peaks such as Yuzhaishan, Junjifeng, Wuzhiling and Jianshan are mainly formed by quartzite and built up by tectonic movements, they all tower aloft above 400m elevation. Steep and graceful precipices and cliffs and wonderful valleys are widespread in the area, forming unique landforms and landscapes.
Within the area, depositional break and angular unconformity planes formed by 3 Cambrian global crustal movements at 2,300Ma (Songyang movement), 1,850Ma (Zhongyue movement) and 570Ma (Shaolin movement) are well preserved. Zhongyue movement initiated the Songshan tecto-geological bodies, providing preliminary conditions for weathering and erosion; while the structural framework formed by Yanshan movement provide the model of Songshan features of today. Due to the Himalayan movement, Songshan Mountain was continuously uplifted and eroded, so that the fault-fracture zones have become passes; fractured joins and fissures form valleys in different shapes, scales and depths; vertically occurred quartzite have been eroded to form clustered landforms and perilous cliffs. The resulted crustal structures such as domes, collapses, folds and faults together with structural framework with alternative circular, linear and block structures become a miniature of tectonic evolution in the crust. Here is not only a natural laboratory for studying the process of the influences of compression, metamorphism, faulting, mountain building, erosion and planation etc. on Cambrian sedimentary formation as well as the law of crustal evolution, but also a treasure house for popularizing geoscientific knowledge to tourists.
People of 8 nationalities including Han, Hui, Pumi, Bai, Yi, Miao, Uygur and Mongolian live in the geopark, forming a big family of multiple nationalities. During each festival of the ethnic minorities, the local government and Han people attend the celebration to fully show and enjoy the folk custom and folkways.
Songshan Mountain is one of the five most famous mountains (known as Wuyue) in China, and is called “Zhongyue” where exist a total of 10 monasteries, 5 temples, 5 palaces, 3 Taoist temples, 4 nunneries, 4 caves, 3 altars and more than 270 pagodas, and is the holy land gathering three major religions: Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism. The world-famous Shaolin Temple lie hidden just in Songshan Mountain. These plentiful scenes and sights of cultural interest and rare and precious geological heritages mingle and add radiance and beauty to each other, forming the solid, multi-level, multi-functional and enchanting landscape of the Songshan Geopark.
