Large areas in China, especially in the provinces of Guangxi and Guizhou, are covered in limestone formations, deposited in a former ocean some 400 to 250 million years ago and later pushed above ...

Limestone stalagmites are created after thousands of years and a beautiful gift of the nature’s course, however, destroying them seems to be comparatively easy. A Chinese tourist managed to destroy ...

Modern reefs show significant primary relief (tens of metres: for example, reef flat versus lagoonal and inter-reef) such that the uneven contact between the Maokou limestone and Emeishan flood ...