Empire of Rock
Southern China holds the world's largets concentration of the eroded topography called karst. For more than 600 million years, this region was covered by a sea and accumulated miles-thick layers of sediments, including limestone. Uplift and erosion of the geological formation created todays massive caverns. Explorers use a laser scanner to see China’s giant caverns as never before.
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