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The Stone Forest is located in the Lunan Yi Autonomous County in central Yunnan Province, 120 kilometers¡
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drive from Kunming, the provincial capital.
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According to geologists, some 280 million years ago this area was covered by a vast sea. After repeated shifts
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in the earth¡s crust, the bottom of the sea was thrust upward, leaving the limestone layer exposed. Owing to solvent
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action, long deep cracks developed in the limestone, and the sea water and carbonic acid water running through the
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cracks gradually eroded the stone into its present shape.