[BITList] Rainbow mountains in China

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They look like something out of a paint by numbers series
frank


*Rainbow mountains in **China**
*

*Yes, we had a hard time believing that this insane mountain formation 
was actually real, because we haven't fallen down the rabbit hole. *

*But, believe it or not, this Technicolor range actually exists.*

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*The mountains are part of the **Zhangye****Danxia****Land 
form****Geological****Park**in **China**. Layers of different colored 
sandstone and minerals *

*were **pressed together over 24 million years* 
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/9550531/Colourful-rock-formations-in-the-Zhangye-Danxia-Landform-Geological-Park.html?frame=2343145>*and 
then buckled up by tectonic plates, according to the Telegraph.*

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There's a similar formation in British Columbiacalled the Rainbow Range 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Range_%28Chilcotin_Plateau%29>*formed 
from a mixture of volcanic rock and various minerals.*

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<https://www.flickr.com/photos/71566470%40N00/8221887189/in/photolist-dwxjBF-dwwUMc-dwCcTh-dwwVU2-dwwJ5z-dwBRM9-dwCKAE-dwCk2J-dwBTSu-dwBQNf-dwxg8T-dwCMxh-dw5cur-dwxcR2-dwwMWn-dwCHS1-dwwkyK-dwCpn7-dwaGJ3-dwBSmC-dwCdQQ-dwCjxS-dwxfzr-dwCJoq-dwwj42-dwCPmU-dwaHef-dwCksS-dwwNqz-dwCn55-dw5HiP-dw5gJe-dwaZL7-dw5oer-dw5kgF-dwaRDS-dwaSfm-dw5qcg-dwaQxW-dw5EjK-dw5Cq4-dwbe2Y-dw5Bfx-dw5pw2-dw5BMa-dw5nA4-dw5oVp-dwb9gh-dwaKg9-96CgGP-9apHSM>

*The formations were shaped into the flowing valleys after thousands of 
years of rain and wind, and the region has been *

listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site 
<http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1335>*since 2010.*

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*Absolutely beautiful and difficult to believe they are real*

	



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