White soil silver sand-rare white landforms show the earth pigment, bring another beauty ~

When it comes to deserts, people seem to think it's made up of a vast expanse of muddy yellow. In fact, around us, there are some silver and white sand, they form the desert and soil, to the earth to bring another beauty ...

, New Mexico, USA

The location of this desert is actually a huge area of gypsum deposits. Monsoon rains and ice and snow Rongshui from the mountains, the gypsum particles dissolved into the low-lying areas, then the gypsum solution through evaporation and weathering, gradually become a soft gypsum crystal particles, in the vast desert piled into towering sand dunes.

For geologists, the American Utah State is a museum of geological geomorphology with a long history. From the north of the Colorado, R. National Park to the south of the Rose, the topography of the consonant gorge and the vast desert of the famous great staircase. In this area, the Rift Valley is as visible as the Rocky Mountain, and is crowned with Bai, Chocolate cliffs, and Zhu Fu Plateau steps, exposing hundreds of millions of of years of colored sedimentary layers.

Mushroom Stone wonders colorful rock formations, wide steep canyons, towering rugged boulders, so that Esclantes National Park is full of charm. In this area, which belongs to the Utah State, there are many large white bentonite tu, which is actually made up of a kind of bentonite called Clay Rock, which can swell after water. Generally appear pale yellow and white.

, Brazil

With plenty of rain, the National park is a scene before it is completely transformed into a desert: a group of freshwater lakes surrounded by sand dunes, like white spray surrounded by blue sea levels, stretched in the stretches desert. But this is not always the view, when the dry season arrives, it is easy to become only white sands of the vast desert.

For those accustomed to the sands, the White Desert Park in the north of Ferrafilla village, Egypt, is not a desert, because there is no stretch of sand dune, drought and strong wind left here the eye-catching evidence, is those standing on the solid soil layer, as if the sand carved the same huge mushroom group and chalk strata. The Egyptian white desert is called the "mushroom Desert" by locals.

Strait of Dover

The famous white Cliff of England, on the Strait of Dover in the eastern part of the English Channel, stretches over 10 miles along the coast of White cliffs, up to more than 200 metres. This white cliff is covered with a rich iron and magnesium alkaline soil, the soil is only suitable for the growth of alkali plants, but alkaline and blocked the soil in the effective absorption of iron and magnesium, so cliff top of the vegetation has always maintained a light green.

Hot spring Landscape These trapezoidal rocks, which are paved with terraced slopes and built into white castles, are a travertine landscape in Turkey, where locals call it cotton fort. The hot spring water flowing from the high rock flows through this 2700-meter-long, 160-meter-high slope, and the spring is in the form of a semi-circular white platform after thousands of years of calcified precipitation.

, French chalk coast

The French Corse, which also has a white cliff, is the fourth largest island in the Mediterranean, across the Bonifacio Strait and the southern Italian Sardinia. On this mountainous island, the mountain-shaped everywhere is very steep, especially on the west side of the mountain peaks which are connected with the coast, which is basically the fall of a large slope, forming many steep bays on the shore, and the white cliffs that break and collapse appear more vigorous.