China Danxia is the collective UNESCO World Heritage designation for the Danxia landform, a set of landscapes found in southeast, southwest, and northwest China consisting of red-bed formations with steep cliffs. Danxia landform is a distinctive type of petrographic geomorphology formed from red-colored sandstones and conglomerates of largely Cretaceous age, resembling limestone karst topography in appearance though geologists call it a pseudo-karst landform because it forms in sandstone and conglomerate rather than limestone, shaped by both endogenous and exogenous forces.
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Protected StatusUNESCO World Heritage Site 1 Connections
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Wikidata P31 (Q1073647) mapped to formative process Erosion via earth5 extended reviewed judgment map; source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.
Source Wikidata: China Danxia
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Wikidata P31 (Q1073647) mapped to discipline Geomorphology via earth5 extended reviewed judgment map; source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.
Source Wikidata: China Danxia
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1. Wikidata: China Danxia
- Wikidata Q1286650, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata P1435 heritage-designation or P3425 Natura 2000 claim on the formation's own item (w-bbfill-earth2-0926)
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