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Geology, ‘far from the madding crowd’, along the northern border of Vietnam
journal contribution
posted on 2020-02-21, 12:31 authored by Mark Williams, Toshifumi Komatsu, Phong Nguyen Duc, Tom HarveyTom Harvey, Thijs VandenbrouckeTo the north of Hanoi, about a day's drive by car, lies Ha Giang Province, the northernmost region of Vietnam. Ha Giang is remote from the hustle and bustle of daily life, and beyond its eponymous provincial capital towards the border with China, mountains rise quickly to Quan Ba, ‘Heaven's Gate’. The mountains form an uneven landscape of steep‐sided karst rising from deep river‐cut gorges and form a formidable barrier on the northern frontier of Vietnam. Beyond ‘Heaven's Gate’ lies the little travelled region of Dong Van, with its majestic mountains of Palaeozoic strata rising precipitously to the sky. Here, a century ago, the French geologists Henri Mansuy and Jacques Deprat documented early finds of fossils from lower Palaeozoic strata on the border with China.
Funding
The Leverhulme Trust. Grant Number: RF‐2018‐275\4
History
Citation
Geology Today, Vol. 35, No. 6, November–December 2019Author affiliation
School of Geography, Geology and the EnvironmentVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)