Yulong Snow Mountain is located at the junction of Qinghai Tibet Plateauand Yunnan Guizhou Plateau, and at the junction of Hengduan Mountain Area inNorthwest Yunnan and plateau area in East Yunnan. It is the main peak of Yunlingmountain in Hengduan Mountain system, and is a young limestone fault block foldmountain. Due to the uneven rise of the earth's crust, the landform ofalternating high mountains, deep valleys and Intermountain basins is formed,which belongs to the mountain valley area cut by Hengduan Mountain system, andthe mountain valley sub area in the north section of Hengduan Mountain. It is apart of the western Yunnan geosyncline in geological history. From Paleozoic toMesozoic, it was influenced by transgression and regression several times. TheHimalayan orogeny in tertiary extended to Quaternary, and Yulongshan was finallyformed at this time.
Yulong Snow Mountain belongs to Yunnan Tibet stratigraphic area. They aremainly carbonate rocks from Middle Devonian to Middle Carboniferous, followed bybasalt with limestone in Permian and limestone with sand shale in Triassic.There are Carboniferous, Permian basalt limestone interbedding and othermetamorphic rocks in the southern part of the mountain. In the south ofbaishacun, there are mainly Triassic strata. Permian basalt and green schist andgreenstone metamorphosed by basalt are found in Hutiao gorge and JinshajiangRiver Valley. The Quaternary glacial deposits and glacial water deposits can beseen in the east slope and Piedmont.
Yulong Snow Mountain is the southernmost modern monsoon marine glacierdistribution area in the Eurasian continent. According to the glacier cataloguepublished in 1994, there are 19 modern glaciers distributed in Yulong SnowMountain, including 15 on the east slope and 4 on the west slope, with a totalarea of 11.6 square kilometers. Baishui No.1 glacier is the largest glacier,with a length of 2.7 kilometers and an area of 1.5 square kilometers. Theequilibrium line is about 4800 meters above sea level, and the glacier is at theend The altitude is about 4200 meters.
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