Welcome to another episode of AMAZING PLACES, if you have missed the previous episodes, click here to see them. Don't forget, i also do DID YOU KNOW fun facts so i guess you don't wanna miss them also.
So today in Amazing Places (AMP#3) lets go to Zhangjiajie in Hunan Province, China where the amazing Tianzi Mountains is located and i am gonna tell you that my Did you know series made a cameo appearance here on this episode of Amazing places #3.
So DID YOU KNOW? That the Tianzi mountain inspired the Halleluja "Floating" Mountains in Pandora in the Avatar Movie? lol let me know in the comment section if you're just knowing this.
Okay, back from Pandora to Zhangjiajie, The Tianzian mountains was named after a farmer from the Tujia ethnic group who led a successful revolt, famers' revolt of course, and later called himself Tianzi which roughly translates to Son of Heaven.
So lets go wayyy back in time
I mean wayy back in time to about 400 Million years ( not $ tho) ago, Tianzi Mountains were created from quartz sandstone through the sporadic rising of the eath crust for 2 million years. and this geological formation belongs to the "New Cathaysian" tectonic system.
If you are not bored yet, then board my ship and lets become time pirates, say Ahoy capitane!
Let go back wayyyyyyy more in time when the dinosaurs didn't exist i guess, anywheres when we get there we'll see for ourselves.
So three billion years ago, the whole area of Tianzi Mountains was a large portion of a prehistoric ocean, and then after some geological changes which also includes the Neotectonic movements and the Himalayan, this process caused the ocean bottom to rose out to the surface and then nature started it's job and spent millions of years gradually cutting and eroding the quartzite sandstone pillars and peak and they all took shape.
So if you visit the Tianzi Mountains today in the Hunan Province, the quartz rocks you see there are some of the finished works of Nature, about 380 Million years old job, the rocks are as thick as 500 to 600 meters. if you found the mountains beautiful and astonishing, support mother nature to continue her beautification job by upvoting this post lol
