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“中國(guó)南方喀斯特地區(qū)的覆蓋面積超過(guò)了50萬(wàn)平方公里，主要分布在云南省、貴州省和廣西壯族自治區(qū)。中國(guó)南方喀斯特地形是全球熱帶及亞熱帶喀斯特地形的典型代表。石林喀斯特被譽(yù)為自然奇觀，是世界級(jí)參照標(biāo)準(zhǔn)。同其他喀斯特地形相比，石林喀斯特的劍狀形態(tài)更為豐富且顏色多樣，并隨著不同的天氣和光線而變化，其喀斯特地貌豐富多樣，富于變化。云南石林是世界上喀斯特地質(zhì)地貌最好范例，具有最好的自然現(xiàn)象和非同尋常的美學(xué)價(jià)值、科學(xué)價(jià)值……”這是2007年聯(lián)合國(guó)教科文組織將云南石林作為中國(guó)南方喀斯特之一列入世界自然遺產(chǎn)時(shí)對(duì)其作出的評(píng)價(jià)。

喀斯特即是指巖溶地貌，是發(fā)育在以石灰?guī)r和白云巖為主的碳酸鹽巖上的地貌。石林位于云南省石林彝族自治縣境內(nèi)，海拔1600-1900米，面積約350平方公里，核心區(qū)域約為107平方公里，是世界上唯一處于亞熱帶高原地區(qū)的喀斯特地質(zhì)地貌景觀。

云南石林在三億年前，曾是一片汪洋，經(jīng)過(guò)漫長(zhǎng)滄桑巨變的地質(zhì)演化，海洋變陸地、平地變高山，形成今天復(fù)雜的巖溶地質(zhì)公園。云南石林涵蓋了地球上眾多的喀斯特地貌類型，兼具了“石林”發(fā)育遺跡和“石林”景觀，主要類型包括石林洼地、石林谷地、石林嶺脊、石林坡地、石林盆景、石林溶丘、尖峰溶痕城堡等。云南石林以雄、奇、險(xiǎn)、秀、幽、奧、曠等特點(diǎn)著稱，被譽(yù)為“世界喀斯特的精華”。

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“The South China Karst region extends over a surface of half a million square kilometers lying mainly in Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi provinces. South China Karst is one of the world’s most spectacular examples of humid tropical to subtropical karst landscapes. The Shilin (stone forest) karst is considered superlative natural phenomena and the world reference site for this type of feature. Shilin contains a wider range of pinnacle shapes than other karst landscapes with pinnacles, and a higher diversity of shapes and colours that change with different weather and light conditions. It contains diverse types of karst landforms. As one of the world’s best examples of karst geological landforms, the Stone Forest in Yunnan is an exceptional natural phenomenon and of outstanding aesthetic and scientific values…” This is the description made by UNESCO when the Stone Forest in Yunnan was inscribed on the World Natural Heritage List as part of the South China Karst area in 2007.

Karst is a landform formed through the erosion to carbonatite rocks such as limestone and dolomite. The Stone Forest, located in Shilin Yi Autonomous County, Yunnan Province, has elevations ranging from 1,600 to 1,900 meters and covers about 350 square kilometers, of which 107 square kilometers are the core area. It is the world’s only karst landscape in subtropical plateau region.

The area of the Stone Forest in Yunnan was a vast sea 300 million years ago. After lengthy geological evolution, the sea was transformed into the land, and then high mountains, forming today’s karst geopark with complicated landforms. The Stone Forest in Yunnan covers myriad types of karst landforms around the planet and integrates karst development relics and karst landscapes including depressions, valleys, ridges, slopes, basins, soluble hills, soluble pinnacle forts, etc. It is noted for its magnificence, uniqueness, dangerous terrains, elegance, secluded environment, mysteriousness, and vastness and has earned the reputation of the “essence of karst landforms in the world”.