Danxia Landform in Jiulong Mountain

Tu/Hu Cheng

Jiulong Mountain is located in the northwest corner of Dabie Mountain World Geopark (Yanjiahe Town, Macheng City). It is a peculiar mountain, winding nine hills from the center to all sides. The longest one is 24 km, and the shortest one is more than 500 meters. It is like nine dragons circling around. It is commonly known as "Nine Dragons Entangling the Top".

The most distinctive feature of Jiulong Mountain is that it preserves a relatively complete section of Cretaceous red beds. The section is composed of Cretaceous purple-red conglomerate, which represents the purple-red conglomerate series formed by the flooding of fault basin under dry and hot climate conditions. Gravel is mainly granite pebble, angular, sub-angular, sorting, grinding roundness difference. This section is one of the standard sections of Cretaceous red beds in Dabie Mountains.